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J5790.60 --- J5730 --- J5630 --- J5511 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- works by individual poets -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- haiku, haikai --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- collections, series and anthologies -- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868)

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"In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page of the diary offered a precious opportunity to create personal hierarchies defined less by gender and more by culture and refinement. After the mid-eighteenth century - which saw the popularization of culture and the rise of commercial printing - textbooks, guides, comical fiction, and woodblock prints allowed not a few commoners to acquaint themselves with the historical, lyrical, or artistic pedigree of Japan's famous sites. By identifying themselves with famous literary and historical icons of the past, some among these erudite commoners saw an opportunity to rewrite their lives and re-create their identities in the pages of their travel diaries."--Jacket.

Travelers' writings, Japanese --- J5630 --- J3400 --- Japanese literature --- Japanese travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Honshū and Japan in general --- Japan --- Description and travel. --- Social conditions --- Description and travel --- History and criticism --- Edo-Zeit. --- Reisebericht. --- Resor --- Social conditions. --- Travel. --- Travelers' writings, Japanese. --- Historia --- 1600-1868. --- Geschichte 1603-1867. --- Japan. --- Reseskildringar. --- Sociala förhållanden

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Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author’s relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author’s intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna’s Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text.

Authors, Japanese --- J5630 --- J5923 --- Diaries --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Michitsuna no Haha, --- Diaries. --- Fujiwara Michitsuna no Haha, --- Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha, --- Fujiwara no Tomoyasu no Musume, --- Fujiwara Tomoyasu no Musume, --- Udaishō Michitsuna no Haha, --- Fujiwara Michitsuna no haha, --- 綱母, --- 藤原道綱母, --- 道綱の母, --- 道綱母, --- 道纲母,

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Authors, Japanese --- Ecrivains japonais --- Biography --- Biographies --- Murasaki Shikibu, --- Diaries --- Journaux intimes --- Japan --- Court and courtiers --- History --- J5630 --- J5923 --- J5710 --- -Japanese authors --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka --- Murasaki Shikibu --- -Diaries --- Court and courtiers. --- -Authors, Japanese --- Biography. --- -Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- -J5630 --- Diaries. --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- Fujiwara, Murasaki, --- Murasaki Sikibu, --- Tō Shikibu, --- 紫式部, --- Zi Shibu, --- Authors, Japanese - Biography --- Murasaki Shikibu, - 978?- - Diaries --- Japan - History - Heian period, 794-1185 --- Japan - Court and courtiers --- Murasaki Shikibu, - 978? --- -Japan

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Autobiography --- Autobiographies --- Authors, Japanese --- Japanese literature --- Autobiography in literature. --- Confucianism in literature. --- Buddhism in literature. --- J5630 --- J2284.60 --- Japanese authors --- Biography --- Diaries --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Japanese authors. --- Biography. --- History and criticism. --- Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Japan --- Autobiografie. --- Buddhismus. --- Konfuzianismus. --- Geschichte 1600-1700. --- Japan. --- Autobiography in literature --- Confucianism in literature --- Buddhism in literature