Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies: The Kagero Diary : A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (Series #19) (Paperback)

from NannyOgg13

The writer of this diary is know only as "Michitsuna's mother". The diary starts with her future husband Fujiwara Kaneie courting her and encompasses the years 954 to 974. Since it is supposed she started writing the diary somewhere round the year 971, all the years before were written down retro...

from DieFledermaus

The narrator of this diary makes a wish on New Year's morning, early in the second book – referring to her husband, “That he may be with me thirty days and thirty nights a month”. Unfortunately, she is a second wife in Heian-era Japan and her husband is not the faithful sort. The bulk of the diar...

from mysteena

Written around 1000 AD, this diary of a Heian noblewoman shares the story of her life as the second wife to a busy court official. Her comments form an insightful and eye-opening view of the marriage rituals of her time. For example, her husband did not live with her but maintained a visiting sta...

from mysteena

Written around 1000 AD, this diary of a Heian noblewoman shares the story of her life as the second wife to a busy court official. Her comments form an insightful and eye-opening view of the marriage rituals of her time. For example, her husband did not live with her but maintained a visiting sta...

from mysteena

Written around 1000 AD, this diary of a Heian noblewoman shares the story of her life as the second wife to a busy court official. Her comments form an insightful and eye-opening view of the marriage rituals of her time. For example, her husband did not live with her but maintained a visiting sta...