“Diary of a Journey from Tosa to the Capital” was the first work in the genre of “nikki”. The author was a man – poet Ki-no Tsurayuki – but he wrote from a woman's perspective. In the “Diary,” he described...
the hardships of travel and what he saw along the way. “Lonely Moon in Sarashina,” whose author is known solely as the daughter of Sugawara-no Takasue, spans almost four decades of her life: marriage and childbirth, court service and pilgrimage, the death of her husband and the ensuing solitude. “Diary of a Flying Spider Web” is among the four most important works of the Heian era and tells of the complicated relationship between the heroine and the father of her child.
“Diary of a Journey from Tosa to the Capital” was the first work in the genre of “nikki”. The author was a man – poet Ki-no Tsurayuki – but he wrote from a woman's perspective. In the “Diary,” he described the hardships of travel and what he saw along the way. “Lonely Moon in Sarashina,” whose author is known solely as the daughter of Sugawara-no Takasue, spans almost four decades of her life: marriage and childbirth, court service and pilgrimage, the death of her husband and the ensuing solitude. “Diary of a Flying Spider Web” is among the four most important works of the Heian era and tells of the complicated relationship between the heroine and the father of her child.