Sugawara no Takasue no musume

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Sugawara no Takasue no musume (菅原孝標女, 1008 - ?) was a Japanese author. "Sugawara no Takasue no musume" means a daughter of Sugawara no Takasue. Her real name is unknown.

She is known for her classic Heian period travel diary, the Sarashina nikki. In his later years, Fujiwara no Teika admired it enough to copy it out for his own perusal. [1]

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  1. ^ pg 80 and 29 of Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-Poem Sequence of the Shoji Era, 1200, translated by Robert H. Brower. Published by Sophia University in 1978; OCLC 6277172

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