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The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
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AMTZEN, Sonja

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…

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9780472901401
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305.8952 KAG k