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The hosts discuss this extensively as one of the most remarkable and original masterpieces of Japanese literature, written in the early 11th century. They read passages from it and describe it as a compilation of diary entries, lists, anecdotes, and observations about court life, translated by Meredith McKinney in the Penguin Classics edition.

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Referenced as an example of the tradition of aristocratic women writing diaries and miscellanies at court, mentioned in connection with a film starring Ewan McGregor