A Certain Woman
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A Certain Woman is a Japanese
novel
by Arishima Takeo
. The novel was written between 1911–1919. It deals with woman's place in Japanese society.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Arishima Takeo
Arishima Takeo
was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, and were also authors.-Early life:...
. The novel was written between 1911–1919. It deals with woman's place in Japanese society.
Release details
- A Certain Woman, transl. by Kenneth Strong, University of Tokyo Press, 1978, 382 pages, ISBN 0-86008-237-7.