Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume ( Japanese 菅原 孝 標 女 ; * 1008 in Kyōto ; † 1057 or after 1067 ) is the emergency name of the author of one of the four ladies-in-waiting diaries, Sarashina Nikki . This prose work is considered to be one of the best stylistically of the time.
Life
The actual name of this poet of the late Heian period has not been passed down, but she is generally known as Sugawara no Takasue no Musume , ie "daughter of Sugawara no Takasue ". Her best-known work Sarashina Nikki is largely autobiographical. The knowledge of the poet is based almost exclusively on this source.
Her father, Sugawara no Takasue, a fifth generation descendant of Sugawara no Michizane , was governor of Kazusa and Hitachi , and later an auditor at court. Her mother was a daughter of Fujiwara no Tomoyasu . She lived in Kazusa until she was 12 years old . Her biography in Sarashina Nikki begins with the description of the three-month return trip to Kyoto and ends at the age of 51.
From the age of 31 she was the maid of honor of Princess Sukeko ( 祐 子 ), the third daughter of Go-Suzaku -Tennō (reign 1036-45). Relatively late, at the age of 33, she was married to Tachibana no Toshimichi in 1040 , who left her in financial trouble when he died in 1051 (or 1058). The marriage resulted in a child, the son Nakatoshi (* 1045)
Works
- Literature by and about Sugawara no Takasue no Musume in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sarashina Nikki ( 更 級 日記 )
- Yoru no Nezame ( 夜半 の 寝 覚 )
- Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (= Mitsu no Hamamatsu; 浜 松 中 納 言 物語 )
- 14 Waka can be found in contemporary anthologies
- Asakura (not received)
- Mizukara Kuyurin (not received)
The three surviving works have been translated into Western languages.
swell
- Berend Wispelwey (Ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1 , Fiche 331
- Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Vol. VII
- The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . Princeton 1980, pp. 40ff
literature
- Donald Keene : The Sarashina Diary . in: Travelers of a Hundred Ages . New York 1989
- Kenneth L. Richard: Developments in Late Heian Prose Fiction . Dissertation at the University of Washington, 1973
- Edith Sarra: The Destiny of a Reader . in: The Art of Remembrance, the Poetics of Destiny… . Harvard 1989
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sugawara no Takasue no Musume |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 菅原 孝 標 女 Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lady-in-waiting and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1008 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1057 or after 1067 |