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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 Tsurayuki, Kino ___ 869-945 ___ Japanese ___ poet, diplomat BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Tsurayuki, a nobleman and poet renowned for his erudition and skills in Chinese and Japanese, was a key figure in producing 'Kokinwakashû', an imperial anthology of poetry. His preface is considered to be the first formal description of Japanese poetry. His 'Tosa nikki' written in Japanese, ('The Tosa Diary' in English) is an account of a difficult journey by sea from Tosa, where he had served as Governor to Kyoto. The narrator has a female voice, as though written by one of the women in his entourage. The 'Encyclopedia Britannica' says it is the earliest example of a literary diary. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 935 ___ literary maritime travel weather WEB TEXT LINKS etext ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Tosa Diary 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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