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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Daishi, Jikaku ___ 793-864 ___ Japanese ___ diplomat, priest, writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Daishi was born into the Mibu family at Shimotsuke-no-Kuni, now in Tochigi, and entered the Buddhist priesthood at around 14 years of age. In 838, he travelled to China, initially as a Japanese representative to the T'Ang court. He stayed nearly 10 years, travelling to monasteries even during a period when Buddhists were being persecuted. He returned to Japan in 847. Thenceforward, he rose to become chief priest of the Tendai sect at Enryakuji. He wrote many books, including a diary of his travels in China which was translated into English by Edwin Reischauer, a US ambassador to Japan. Reischauer claimed it was one of the world's three great travel books. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 838-848 ___ religious travel society royalty China WEB TEXT LINKS brief extracts ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law  May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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