The Sarashina Diary

Sugawara no Takasue no MusumeSugawara no Takasue no Musume:
Takasue's Daughter, or Sugawara no Takasue no musume, was a Japanese author. "Sugawara no Takasue no musume" means a daughter of Sugawara no Takasue. Her real name is unknown.ArntzenSonja:
Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of Literature at the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of Pre-modern Japanese literature, history, religion, thought, and classical Japanese language. She has translated The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (U. of Michigan, 1997). With Columbia University Press, she has published Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1987), Kana Classic: An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese Kana Writing (1998), and The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan.ItoMoriyuki:
Moriyuki Itô holds a PhD from Tôhoku University, (1995). He taught from 1984 to 2005 at Hirosaki University. He is currently professor of Japanese Literature at Gakushûin Women's College in Tokyo. He has published many articles on the Sarashina Diary over a period of thirty years. His Sarashina nikki Kenkyû, (Research on the Sarashina Diary) published in 1995 is recognized as a definitive work on the subject.Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of literature at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. Her books include The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (1997).

Ito Moriyuki is professor of Japanese literature at Gakushuin Women's College in Tokyo. His book Sarashina nikki kenkyu (Research on the Sarashina Diary, 1995) is recognized as the definitive work on the diary.