Notes at the head of the head. Dispensation of Sei-Senagon. Efimov M.B.

The author of the book in education is a Japanese. He defended the dissertation according to modern Japanese literature. A total of ten years worked in Japan as a correspondent of a news agency. Thus, we can assume that he devoted most of his life (age group “90+”) to study the country of the rising sun.

the genre of this book, the author called the imitation of "Dzuhitsa" - the Japanese analogue of the essay. Holding, he refers to the immortal creation of the X century “Notes at the head of the head”, created by the court lady Say-Synagon, which inspired him in this work. Essentially, these are the author’s memories of life, about his contemporaries, about Japan, about its traditions and the most striking pages of recent history.

The book is written with humor, and excerpts that could be read on the website of the Russia-Japon society edited by G. Dutkina received positive readers' responses.