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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

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2017
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At Nara where the great Buddha, 160 feet high, was already standing.

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In those days it was the custom for the person who wished to be favoured by the Inari god to crown his head with a twig of cedar. The Inari god was then the god of the rice-plant. He is now confused with the fox-god whose little shrines, flanked by small stone foxes, are seen everywhere.

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A kind of leathern shield made of untanned deerskin worn hanging from the shoulder.

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The World: i.e. her husband.

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The following poems have been found impossible of literal translation on account of play of words.

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As I slept fondly thinking of him
He appeared to my sight —
Oh, I would I had not wakened
To find it only a dream!

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Her brother Sadayoshi was Governor of that Province.

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Kaminari sama.

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In 1057, as Governor of Shinano Province.

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She was thirty-five years old and her husband forty-one years old when they were married. We may suppose that she was his second wife. This daughter must have been borne by the first wife. The cause of starting from his daughter's house is some superstitious idea, and not the coldness of their relation.

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The rank of the person determined the colour of his clothes. Red was worn by nobles of the fifth degree.

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The Japanese believed that "human fire" or spirit can be seen leaving the body of one who is soon to die.

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Her husband died.

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At death the Lord Buddha coming on a cloud appears to the faithful one and accompanies the soul to Heaven.

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The point of this is in the name of the place, Obásuté, which may be translated, "Aunt Casting Away," or "Cast-Away-Aunt." It is a place famous for the beauty of its scenery in moonlight.

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This diary seems to have been jotted down in disconnected paragraphs and the editors have preserved that form.

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Tsuchimikado: the residence of Prime Minister Fujiwara, the father of the Queen.

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Priests are praying for the easy delivery of the Queen, who has gone to her parents' house before the birth, in accordance with old Japanese custom.

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The writer of this diary lost her husband in 1001.

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Altars before Fudo, Gosansé, Gunsari, Daiitoku, Kongoyasha.

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See the plan of a great house of those days.

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Yorimichi, the Prime Minister Fujiwara Michinaga's son, who was then sixteen years old.

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Misu: a thin finely woven bamboo curtain, behind which one may see but not be seen, hung before great personages and women's apartments.

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Tonearasoi: at present not known.

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Imayo, or "new style," a kind of song in vogue in those days. The verse consists of eight or ten alternating seven-and five-syllable lines.
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