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Tosa Nikki
The ''Tosa Nikki'' (''Tosa Diary'') is a poetic diary written anonymously by the tenth-century Japanese poet Ki no Tsurayuki.〔Keene, Donald 1999. ''Seeds in the Heart: A History of Japanese Literature'', Volume 1. New York: Columbia University Press, p.361-366〕 The text details a 55-day journey in 935 returning to Kyoto from Tosa province, where Tsurayuki had been the provincial governor. The prose account of the journey is punctuated by Japanese poems, purported to have been composed on the spot by the characters.
The ''Tosa Nikki'' is the first notable example of the Japanese diary as literature. Up until its time, the word “diary” (''nikki'') denoted dry official records of government affairs, written by men in Chinese. By contrast, the ''Tosa'' is written in the Japanese language, using phonetic ''kana'' characters. Literate men of the period wrote in both ''kana'' and Chinese, but women typically were not taught the latter, being restricted to ''kana'' literature. By framing the diary in the point of view of a fictitious female narrator, Tsurayuki could avoid employing Chinese characters or citing Chinese poems, focusing instead on the aesthetics of the Japanese language and its poetry.〔Matsumura, Seiichi et al, 1973. Nihon Koten Bungaku Zenshū v. 9. Tokyo: Shogakukan, introductory essay.〕
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抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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