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SPEAKER_01: Hello.From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves. Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end to their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter in their legacies.This month, we're telling the stories of these women.We're talking about disappearing acts.Today.I was brought up in a distant province.I'm ashamed to think that inhabitants of the royal city will think me an uncultured girl.
Imagine having your diary read by people thousands of years after your death.A nightmare, right?But most of our journals probably aren't written as beautifully as the Seirashina Diary, which documented life in Heian, Japan.And while we have access to the author's most intimate thoughts, we actually don't know her name.Though she's the author of one of Japan's most influential books, she's simply known as the daughter of Sugawara Takasu.Takasu's daughter. Takasu's daughter was born in the year 1008.There are a few reasons why we don't know her actual name.The first is kotodama, the belief that there's a mysterious power dwelling within words, like manifesting almost.People thought this power could be harnessed to control people.
So our author, along with many others, avoided putting their names on their writings. The second is that while women in Heian Japan were educated and lived independently, their names weren't included in any public records.There's no spiritual meaning behind this one.It's just patriarchy.Takasu's daughter began writing in 1021 when her family moved to Kyoto for her father's new job in the royal court.While Europe was deep in the Dark Ages, Japan was in the midst of a cultural flourishing.Our author worried about fitting in. But she arrived to find courtly life awfully boring.It was just adults sitting around and talking.She craved entertainment.
Finally, she got her hands on the hottest book of the time, The Tale of Genji.All day and all night, as late as I could keep my eyes open, I did nothing but look at the books, setting a lamp close beside me.To be a queen were nothing compared to this.The Tale of Genji is widely considered the first novel in Japan. It tells the trials and tribulations of Prince Genji's romantic life.A handsome prince, his epic love story.And it was also written by a woman.Our diarist was hooked.It was the perfect fuel for pure teenage fantasy.Although I was still ugly and undeveloped, the time would come when I should be beautiful beyond compare, with long, long hair.
I should be like the Lady Yugao, loved by the shining Prince Genji. Could such a man as the Shining Prince be living in this world?Our author spent time daydreaming and yearning and filling the pages of her diary with her rich inner world.Soon she left court and returned back home to the country with her parents.When she was a few years older, she was sent back to the city to rejoin the court.Over time, she settled in and made friends.Court got a little less lonely.Stories remained a solace. Prince Genji still got a few mentions in her diary.And then one night, there was no starlight and a gentle shower fell into the darkness.
How lovely was its sound on the leaves.She met someone.I yearn for a tranquil moment to be out upon the sea of harmony and that enchanted boat.Oh, boatman, do you know my heart?They started swapping poems. The more deeply beautiful is the night, he said.The full moonlight would be too dazzling.But then... So I composed that poem, and there is nothing more to tell.His personality was very excellent, and he was not an ordinary man.But time passed, and neither called to the other.
Her first real romance came to an end. It was there that the diary skipped a couple of years.And when our author returned, the diary took a hard shift.We learn, without fanfare, that she's now married.She talked about her new role as a wife.I devoted myself in various ways for my husband.Even in serving at court, one had likewise to devote oneself unceasingly.And how her notion of love had changed since the days she was writing about Prince Genji. As I advanced in age, I felt it unbecoming to behave as young couples do.Our author was in her 30s.
She had kids now, plus a husband.We can imagine that she was wrapped up in her day-to-day life, with less time to engage in the fantasies from before.Until one day.On the fifth day of the tenth month, all became like a dream.My sorrows could be compared to nothing in this world.Her husband died. My feeling when I saw him going out can never be expressed.I seemed to wander in dreams and thought that human life must soon cease here.In the depths of despair she began to write more.I turned, my eyes full of tears, towards the intensely bright moon.
Even into the mind always clouded with grief, there is cast the reflection of the bright moon.The diary ends on a rather somber note. The author was in her 50s.She'd carried her journal from her teenage years in court to her seemingly happy home life with her husband and kids.But with her husband gone and her kids presumably out of the house, she was alone.Weeds grow before my gate, and my sleeves are wet with dew.No one calls on me.My tears are solitary, alas.Bushes bury the hut where lives the world-deserted one. So ends the diary.
By an author whose deepest thoughts across decades we are still reading thousands of years later, but whose name we will never know.All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you tomorrow.
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