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In 1032 when she was approximately 25, her father received a provincial governor posting in
Hitachi, where he served for 4 years. As his posting was far away in the East Country, she stayed with her mother in the capital. After Takasue moved back to Kyoto, her mother became a nun but remained in the
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until 1023, when the house burned down. According to her diary, her family started living in temporary places. The following year in 1024, her elder sister died in childbirth and in 1025, Sugawara no
Takasue failed to obtain a provincial governorship, meaning a period of financial difficulty for the
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She would have been 33 years old at the beginning of her marriage, a late age at a time where most married in their early teens. In Heian aristocratic society, duolocal residence, where a woman was visited by her husband in her own home, was common. Since
Takasue's Daughter lost her house in a fire
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During one of her periods of service in 1042, she had an encounter with high-ranking courtier
Minamoto no Sukemichi (d. 1060). This marked the high point of her court career as she was able to converse and exchange poetry with someone who fulfilled the ideal of a courtly gentleman as portrayed in
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Sarashina nikki was written by the daughter...and is known conventionally as Takasue no musume, "Takasue's Daughter." She is also identified as the niece of the Kagero author. She was born around 1008, and her single-volume nikki, which covers a period of about forty years
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Takasue's daughter (Takasue no musume), after her father Sugawara no Takasue, a provincial official. ... As its English translator Ivan Morris (who preferred to call the author “Lady Sarashina”) explains in his
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From ages ten to thirteen, she lived in Kazusa
Province, where her father was serving as provincial governor. When she was approximately twelve years old, she began recording a daily account of her events which would later become known as the
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Tachibana no Toshimichi, a middle-ranking aristocrat. They had at least two children. The marriage did not end her court career entirely, and she continued to serve from time to time.
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Sarashina Diary is recorded approximately a year after his death.
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