ÅŒkagami
The Ōkagami (Japanese大 镜, literally: Large mirror ) is a historical narrative (歴 史 物语, rekishi monogatari ) from the late Heian period.
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The author is unknown, but one suspects him in the context of the court nobility to the Minamoto family. It originated during the InseI of Tennō Shirakawa and with its three monogatari: Imakagami ( "Now Mirror" ), Mizukagami ( " water level " ) and Masukagami ( " clear mirror " ) to the "four levels " ( kagamimono ). It describes in narrative form and in the style of a biographical historiography (纪 伝 体, kidentai ) [note 1] historical events 850-1025, i.e. the year of enthronement of Montoku Tennō until the reign of Go- Ichijō Tennō, and is also regarded as a continuation of the Eiga Monogatari. It includes three sections of three, six and eight maki ( rolls).
The work is based on the model of Chinese historical works such as the " Shiji " wrote. As a story, it has a stylistic peculiarity even for rekishi monogatari. The events will be entertained in the dialogue of two sagenumwogen old men, the 190 years old Ōyake no Yotsugi (大宅 世 継) and the 180- year-old Natsuyama no Shigeki (夏 山 繁 树), located in the Unrin'in Temple (云林 院) in Kyoto, offered. The conversation is made entertaining by interspersed questions of a young, 20 -year-old samurai.
Structurally, the Ōkagami can be divided into five parts: preface (序, jo ), Kaiser chronicles (帝 纪, Teiki ), biographies (列 伝, Retsuden ), tales of the Fujiwara clan (藤原 氏 物语, Fujiwarashi monogatari ) and tales of old-time ( 昔 物语, mukashi monogatari ). Are told, among other things the fraternal strife between Fujiwara no Kanamichi and Fujiwara no Kaneie as Fujiwara no Michikane the Tennō Kazan brought to the throne to renounce and many more intrigue in the imperial court.