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Sacred rites in moonlight; Ben No Naishi Nikki.


9781885445407

Sacred rites in moonlight An open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight from the Mono project. Moonlight provides a runtime engine that allows Silverlight applications to run on Linux and also provides a Linux software development kit (SDK) for building Silverlight applications. ; Ben No Naishi Nikki.

Ben no Naishi. Ed. and trans. by S. Yumiko Hulvey.

Cornell East Asia East Asia

A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East.



East Asian adj. & n.
 Program

2005

324 pages

$48.00

Hardcover

Cornell East Asia series; 122

PL792

Ben no Naishi (1228-1270) created an innovative poetic account of her life as a naishi (female courtier) serving at the court of Go- Fukakusa. In her introduction to this translation, Hulvey (Japanese, U. of Florida) reassesses traditional scholarship that regards the work as a product of a naive author who compiled her text without any literary purpose and argues instead that Ben no Naishi was guided by her devotion Devotion may refer to:
  • Edward Devotion School, a public school in Brookline, Massachusetts.
  • Bible study (Christian), devotion within Christianity
  • Catholic devotions, devotion within Catholicism
  • Bhakti, devotion within Hinduism
 to the sacred and secular duties of the naishi. Hulvey includes valuable descriptions of Ben no Naishi's literary heritage and family tree as well as a bibliographic bib·li·og·ra·phy  
n. pl. bib·li·og·ra·phies
1. A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.

2.
a.
 essay. Published by the East Asia Program at Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. .

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