Takasue's Daughter

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (Japanese菅原 孝 标 女; * 1008 in Kyoto, † 1057 or after 1067) is the Notname the author of one of the four ladies diaries, the Sarashina Nikki. This prose work is one of the best style of that time.

Life

The actual name of this poet of the late Heian period was not recorded, but it is commonly known as Sugawara no Takasue no Musume - known so " daughter of Sugawara no Takasue ". Her best-known work Sarashina Nikki is autobiographical in many trains. Knowledge about the poet relies almost exclusively on this source.

Sugawara no Takasue - a descendant of Sugawara no Michizane in the fifth generation - was governor of Kazusa and Hitachi, later Auditor at court. Her mother was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tomoyasu. Up to the age of 12, she lived in Kazusa. Your biography in Sarashina Nikki begins by describing the three-month return trip to Kyoto and ends with her 51 years of age.

From the age of 31 years she worked as a maid servant of Princess Sukeko (佑 子), the third daughter of Go- Suzaku Tenno ( r. 1036-45 ). Relatively late, at the age of 33, she was married to Tachibana 1040 Lee- No, they left behind in economic difficulties, as he (? , Or 1058 ) died in 1051. The marriage produced a child went forth, the son Nakatoshi (* 1045)

Works

• Literature of and over Sugawara no Takasue no Musume in the catalog that German national library
• Sarashina Nikki (更 级 日记)
• Yoru no Nezame (夜半 の 寝覚)
• Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari ( = Mitsu no Hamamatsu ;浜 松 中 纳 言 物语)
• 14 Waka can be found in contemporary anthologies
• Asakura (not included )
• Mizukara Kuyurin (not included )

Of the three surviving works are translations available in Western languages.

Swell

• Berend Wispelwey (ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive. K.G. Saur, Munich, 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1, Fiche 331
• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Vol VII
• The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Princeton 1980, p 40ff