{"id":109734,"date":"2021-06-01T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/tosa-nikki-diary\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:00:09","slug":"tosa-nikki-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/tosa-nikki-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tosa Nikki diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki bungaku (\u65e5\u8a18\u6587\u5b66) is a genre of Japanese diary literature including prominent works such as the <strong>Tosa Nikki<\/strong>, Kager\u014d Nikki, and Murasaki Shikibu Nikki.<\/p>\n<p>While diaries began as records imitating daily logs kept by Chinese government officials, private and literary diaries emerged and flourished during the Heian period (794-1192 AD).<\/p>\n<p>Although scholars have found diaries dating back to the eighth century, most of those were mere records kept on daily matters of state.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Japan looked to China as a model of culture and civilization and sought to copy Chinese official government diaries. 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