紫式部日記

aka Murasaki Shikibu Nikki

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

AuthorMurasaki Shikibu

LanguageClassical Japanese

Yearc. 1008-1010

CountryJapan

GenreNonfiction / Essays / Treatise

east asiafemale authorheian era

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The Diary of Lady Murasaki is the title given to a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu. It is written in kana, then a newly-developed writing system for vernacular Japanese, more common among women, who were generally unschooled in Chinese. Unlike modern diaries or journals, 10th-century Heian diaries tend to emphasize important events more than ordinary day-to-day life and do not follow a strict chronological order. The work includes vignettes, waka poems, and an epistolary section written in the form of a long letter.— Wikipedia