My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki’’s Revenge

Michael Shapiro was born in Yokohama and educated in Japan and the United States. He and his late wife, the medievalist and Renaissance scholar, Marianne Shapiro, are the authors of several books, including Figuration in Verbal Art. His earlier book, My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki’s Revenge, is a work of fiction inspired by the great Japanese literature of upper-class women writers in the mid-Heian period.