Title: A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by William H. and Helen Craig McCullough. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. 2 vols. 444 pp. and 488 pp. Preface, Illustrations, Index, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography. $62.50 (both vols.).