The Mother of Michitsuna 藤原道綱母
diarist · Heian Japan · 936?–995
Her own name is lost, so she is called by her son's. In the Kagero Diary she wrote of the bitterness of twenty-one years as the second wife of a powerful man.
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955 · A poem sent, pinned to a faded chrysanthemum, the morning after she refused to open the gate to a husband coming from another woman
Do you know how long it is, the time till dawn, on a night spent sighing and sleeping alone?
嘆きつつひとり寝る夜のあくるまはいかに久しきものとかは知るKagero Diary (Kagero nikki)
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