Ivan Morris's The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan in the 1979 Penguin reprint, a study first published by Oxford University Press in 1964. Morris reconstructs the society, aesthetics, beliefs and daily life of the Heian court familiar from The Tale of Genji. This copy is notably clean for its age, with light edge wear and mild fading along the spine but no major creasing; the binding appears sound. Good-plus condition. ISBN 0140054790.