Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Nun Abutsu and Women’s Writing in Medieval Japan 1 2 A Woman’s Guide to Career Success: Nun Abutsu and Court Life in The Nursemaid’s Letter 19 3 Lover and Nun: Embodying the Heroine in Fitful Slumbers 60 4 Women and the Way: Nun Abutsu as Poet and Genji Scholar 98 5 Politics and Poetry: Diary of the Sixteenth Night Moon as a Literary Appeal 136 Epilogue: Abutsu’s Legacy 173 Appendix I: The Mikohidari Lineage 181 Appendix II: A Chronology of Nun Abutsu 183 Notes 189 Bibliography 241 Index 259 ...