Primary Sources: Japan: Women

Translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi.

Letters from Home to Home

Translated from the Iwanami ed. of the Kager nikki published in 1957.

The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna's Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954-74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman's experience of a thousand years ago.

The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang / edited and translated by Hua-ling Hu, Zhang Lian-hong.