The Kagerō diary : : a woman's autobiographical text from tenth-century Japan / / translated with an introduction and notes by Sonja Arntzen.
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 aristo...
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Michitsuna no Haha, approximately 935-995. Kagerō nikki. English The Kagerō diary : a woman's autobiographical text from tenth-century Japan / translated with an introduction and notes by Sonja Arntzen. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1997. 1 online resource (xv, 413 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; no. 19 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. Also available in print form. Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ In English. Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-408) and index. Description based on information from the publisher. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Unrestricted online access star Authors, Japanese Heian period, 794-1185 Diaries. Michitsuna no Haha, approximately 935-995 Diaries. Print version: Michitsuna no Haha. The Kagerō diary. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997 9780939512805 0939512807 Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 19. |
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