Sugested books?

Question

I love The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaffer and would like some sugestions on other books set in that period and/or written in that type of style.

Answer 1

Here are some stories set in Japan in the 11th century.:

Dalby, Liza
The Tale of Murasaki-Dalby reconstructs the life and times of Murasaki Shikibu, the author of the classic Japanese novel, considered the world's first, The Tale of Genji.

Parker, I.J.
Rashomon Gate-Akitada, a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Justice, has disappointed his mother by neither advancing in his career nor having taken a wife. His true talents lie outside the bureaucracy he's enmeshed in: he has a talent for detecting.

Parker, I.J.
The Hell Screen-On his way back to his ancestral home in the capital city of Heian Kyo to attend to his dying mother, Akitada takes refuge overnight in a Buddhist monastery housing a number of other guests.

Woodward, Ann
Of Death and Black Rivers-Lady Aoi, now restored to her position as Lady-in-Waiting in the Imperial Court, helps another lady of the court elope with a victorious general of the northern country known as the Dark Warrior. But soon a number of prominent ministers of the court who have defied the ruthless general begin dying mysterious deaths, and Lady Aoi, who was trained as a physician, must use her knowledge of human nature and good judgment to find the truth behind them.


Woodward, Ann
The Exile Way

Answer 2

You might try Memoir of a Geisha or The Tale of Genji or Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa's swashbuckling samurai novel.
Also take a look at:
The Tale of the Heike by Helen Craig McCullough
Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Kodansha Globe) by Ivan I. Morris

Answer 3

Bundori by Laura Joh Rowland
Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka

Answer 4

You may enjoy the Tales of the Otori trilogy by Lian Hearn. It's a fantasy series, but set in historical Japan.