Lady Sarashina (Takasue's daughter, Sugawara no Takasue no musume)
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Author
Lady Sarashina (Takasue's daughter, Sugawara no Takasue no musume)
Location
Heian-kyo (modern day Kyoto), Kazusa (modern day Chiba)
Dates
1008-1059
Biography
Takasue no Musume, or Lady Sarashina, was born in Heian-kyo, the daughter of Fujiwara no Takasue. Her father was a mid-level aristocrat and the provincial governor of Kazusa province (modern day Chiba.) Lady Sarashina moved with her family to Kazusa from the ages of ten to thirteen before finally moving back to the capital. She famously recounts this journey back to the capital in her diary, the Sarashina Nikki. [Source: Arntzen, Sonja and Ito Moriyuki, tr. The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-century Japan. New York: Columbia UP, 2014.]
Works
Sarashina Nikki (The Sarashina Diary)
Languages
Japanese
Genres
Diary/Memoir/Travel Writing
Editions and Translations
Morris, Ivan, tr. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th Century Japan. London: Penguin Books, 1975. ; Arntzen, Sonja and Ito Moriyuki, tr. The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-century Japan. New York: Columbia UP, 2014.
