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Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

(Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-)

Statue of Takasue's Daughter (Chiba Prefecture Ichihara, taken in front of Goi Station).
The statue appears to be walking over a rainbow bridge wearing a hat. It illustrates the beginning of her journey with her father, Sugawara Takashishirube, stepmother, and sister from Kazusa Province to the capital.

The road that extends from Goi Station to Kokubunjidai is nicknamed

Sugawara no Takasue no musume (菅原孝標女; c.1008 – after 1059), also known as Takasue's Daughter and Lady Sarashina, was a Japanese noble woman, poet, and author best known for writing the Sarashina Nikki, a Heian period travel diary recording her life and travels from her teenage years to her fifties. She is also attributed by some scholars as the author of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari and Yoru no Nezame. Her personal name is unknown. (From Wikipedia)

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Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), also by Lady Shikibu Murasaki and Izumi Shikibu, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell

Additional books by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume in the extended shelves:

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Diaries of court ladies of old Japan (Constable & Co., 1921), also by Annie Shepley Omori, Izumi Shikibu, Lady Shikibu Murasaki, and Kōchi Doi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, also by Izumi Shikibu and Murasaki Shikibu, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi (Gutenberg ebook)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Heianchō nikkishū : Zen (Yūhōdō, 1913), also by Osamu Miura, 13th cent Nakatsukasa no Naishi, ca. 1209-1283 Abutsu-ni, b. ca. 1079 Sanuki no Suke, Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, ca. 935-995 Michitsuna no Haha, Tsurayuki Ki, and Take Ryūzō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Kōchū Sarashina nikki (Hakubunkan, 1899), also by Nobutsuna Sasaki (page images at HathiTrust)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: The Sarashina diary (San Kaku Sha, 1920), also by KoÌ„chi Doi and Annie Shepley Omori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Sarashina nikki shinchū (Ikuei Shoin, 1928), also by Kōsuke Tamai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-: Sarashina nikki shinchū (880-03 Tōkyō : Ikuei Shoten, Taishō 15 [1925], 1925), also by Kōsuke Tamai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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