Haiku Moment

Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.

This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author''s unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.

Too impetuous to be sa...