女性为何处于平安文学的中心？

Naomi Fukumori, “Chinese Learning as Performative Power in Makura no sōshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki,” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 2 (2001), pp. 101–119, especially pp. 109–110 and 113–114. The snow-and-blind episode and Murasaki's discreet lessons are paraphrased from the passages discussed in the article. They are literary representations of encounters, not verbatim contemporary transcripts. https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/PAJLS/article/view/867 ; https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/PAJLS/article/download/867/314/2839

Amy Vladeck Heinrich, “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon,” Columbia University, Asia for Educators; Sonja Arntzen, “Heian Literary Diaries: From Tosa nikki to Sarashina nikki,” The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (2015), pp. 165–175, public chapter summary. These identify the writers and the range of major literary diaries; the full Cambridge chapter was not available for this essay. https://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/special/japan_600ce_pillowbook.htm ; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-japanese-literature/heian-literary-diaries-fromtosa-nikkitosarashina-nikki/C26816C95CF3EFC2EB327E3F07723DDF

Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Heian Period (794–1185).” The aristocratic cultural setting, Fujiwara prominence, and women's role in literature. The argument distinguishes this privileged setting from the circumstances of women throughout the country. https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/heian-period-794-1185

Uji City, “Following the Route Traveled by Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Tametoki,” October 31, 2024, historical introduction to a commemorative event. Used only for Tametoki's appointment to Echizen and Murasaki's accompanying journey in 996, not as proof of the modern reenactment's historical detail. https://www.city.uji.kyoto.jp/site/murasaki/88076.html

Yamamoto Junko, “Women Are Not Mere Ornaments: Murasaki-Shikibu's Pragmatism in Murasaki-shikibu-nikki,” Japanese Literature 53, no. 2 (2004), pp. 1–8, DOI 10.20620/nihonbungaku.53.2_1. The accessible Japanese abstract supports the account of practical service, Shōshi's household, and Yamamoto's interpretation of Murasaki's criticism. This is attributed as an interpretation, not a surviving job description; the full article was not consulted. https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1390282680755928064

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, “Exhibition Galleries,” especially “The Tale at Hand” and “Monochrome Genji Paintings.” Kana and the “women's hand”; the relationship between tales and vernacular writing; and the possible role of women in making and using small sixteenth-century ink-line scrolls. The latter attribution remains qualified. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/tale-of-genji/exhibition-galleries

Ohio State University, Classical Japanese Portal, “Tosa Nikki.” Ki no Tsurayuki's authorship, the female narrative persona, and the return journey. The portal dates the journey to 935; the Cambridge chapter summary starts it in 934. The essay uses the customary 935 dating of the diary rather than treating the journey as confined to one calendar system's year. https://cjp.asc.ohio-state.edu/books/tosa-nikki/cover

Murasaki Shikibu and Sugawara no Takasue's daughter, in Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi (1920). The passages on book preparation in Shōshi's household, Michinaga's removal of manuscripts, and the Sarashina Diary narrator's gift of tales are paraphrased rather than quoted. The translation's introductory generalizations and outdated naming or calendar conventions are not adopted. The copying passage concerns literary bookmaking; it is not treated as a complete production ledger for Genji. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47151/pg47151-images.html

Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book, excerpts presented by Columbia University, Asia for Educators, with commentary by Amy Vladeck Heinrich. The account of gathering observations, poems, and things the writer found interesting supports the discussion of selection and literary voice. https://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/special/japan_600ce_pillowbook.htm

Murasaki Shikibu, 《源氏物语》, chapter 1, “Kiritsubo,” in Arthur Waley's 1925 English translation. The opening household conflict and the mother's death are treated as events in fiction. The discussion of the gap between affection and security is a reading of the narrative, not a claim about an identified historical consort. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66057/pg66057-images.html

Sonja Arntzen and Itō Moriyuki, introduction and preface to The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014), accessible preface extract; and the publisher's description of the 2018 reader's edition. The retrospective literary construction is distinguished from a continuously kept childhood diary. https://academic.oup.com/columbia-scholarship-online/book/14697/chapter-abstract/168873107 ; https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sarashina-diary/9780231546829/

Arntzen and Itō, “The Relationship of Theme and Structure,” in The Sarashina Diary (2014), pp. 23–34, accessible chapter abstract. Their distinction between literature's deluding and consoling powers is used as a guide to the diary's competing attitudes. The full chapter was not consulted. https://academic.oup.com/columbia-scholarship-online/book/14697/chapter-abstract/168873755

Melissa McCormick, The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion (Princeton University Press, 2018), author publication page and abstract hosted by Harvard University's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Used for the 1510 Genji Album and the roles of painter, calligraphers, warrior patrons, and literary intermediaries; no complete reading of the book is claimed. https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/publication/tale-genji-visual-companion

Sonja Arntzen, “Heian Literary Diaries: From Tosa nikki to Sarashina nikki,” public chapter summary. The Tokugawa woodblock editions and later placement of the diaries in the modern canon, including their reception in relation to autobiographical fiction. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-japanese-literature/heian-literary-diaries-fromtosa-nikkitosarashina-nikki/C26816C95CF3EFC2EB327E3F07723DDF