Bowring
Proper noun
Meaning
Bowring (plural Bowrings)
A surname.
Phrases with the word
Examples
Accounts of their marriage vary: Richard Bowring writes that the marriage was happy, but Japanese literature scholar Haruo Shirane sees indications in her poems that she resented her husband.
Adolphson (2007), 110 Bowring writes it was "almost subversive" that Murasaki knew Chinese and taught the language to Shōshi.
Bowring (2004), 79 Legacy Murasaki's reputation and influence have not diminished since her lifetime when she, with other Heian women writers, was instrumental in developing Japanese into a written language.
Eve became friends with President and Mamie Eisenhower, and the Eisenhowers had planned to take a vacation at Bowring Ranch in 1955, before Ike suffered a heart attack, and they were forced to cancel their plans.
Bowring (1996), xv–xvii Ichijō's mother and Michinaga's sister, Senshi, had an influential salon, and Michinaga probably wanted Shōshi to surround herself with skilled women such as Murasaki to build a rival salon.
Bowring considers 1014 to be speculative, and believes she may have lived with Shōshi until as late as 1025.