is a Japanese
historical tale ''Rekishi monogatari'' (歴史物語) is a category of Japanese literature defined as extended prose narrative. Structurally, the name is composed of the Japanese words ''rekishi'' (歴史), meaning history, and ''monogatari'' (物語), meaning tale ...
written in the early
Muromachi period
The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (''Muromachi bakufu'' or ''Ashikaga bakufu''), which was officially established in 1338 by ...
believed to be between 1368 and 1376. The author is not known but is believed to be
Nijō Yoshimoto.
[Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005). "''Masu-kagami''" i]
''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 615.
/ref> It is the last of four works of mirror series and follows most recent events.
''Masukagami'' is twenty volumes in total and follow events from 1183 to 1333 in accordance with the way Chinese classical historical tales were written. It starts with the accession of Emperor Go-Toba
was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.
This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and ''go-'' (後), translates literally as "later"; a ...
and ends with Emperor Go-Daigo
Emperor Go-Daigo (後醍醐天皇 ''Go-Daigo-tennō'') (26 November 1288 – 19 September 1339) was the 96th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'')後醍醐天皇 (96) retrieved 2013-8-28. according to the traditional order ...
's punishment of being deported to an island of Oki Province. The story is told through a fictitious hundred year old Buddhist
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nun of Seiryō-ji.
See also
* ''Ōkagami ''Ōkagami'' () is a Japanese historical tale written in around 1119 by an unknown author. It covers the period 850 to 1025, the golden days of the Fujiwara family's rule. It is said to be a successor (世継物語, ''yotsugi monogatari'') with the ...
''
* '' Imakagami''
* ''Mizukagami
is a Japanese ''rekishi monogatari''. It is believed to have been written in the early Kamakura period around 1195. It is widely credited to Nakayama Tadachika but the actual writer is unknown. It is the third book of the four mirror series.
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Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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OCLC 48943301
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Late Middle Japanese texts
Fictional Buddhist nuns
Muromachi-period history books