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Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through one of its most enigmatic and consequential texts, Tosa nikki (The Tosa Diary)-the world's first short novelistic work of fiction, which purports to record the voyage of an anonymous woman.

The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, and officially sponsored anthologies, none of which had a precedent in earlier times. At the apex of these phenomena lay compilation of the Kokin wakashu (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern), whos...

Gustav Heldt is Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Virginia.

A collaborative project with the Nalanda-Swiwijaya Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore."--Title page verso.