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*''Born: [[1222]]''
*''Died: [[1283]]''
Nun Abutsu is known as a famous poet and essayist who went to the Court to protect the illustrious poetry legacy of the [[Fujiwara family]] and her sons’ future. Her husband was [[Fujiwara Tameie]] and his father and grandfather were two of the most renowned poets in the late [[Heian Period|Heian]] to early [[Kamakura Period|Kamakura]] eras, [[Fujiwara Teika]] and [[Fujiwara Shunzei]]. After her husband died in [[1275]], she became a nun, yet she also had the goal to follow her husband’s wishes to make her son, [[Fujiwara Tamesuke|Tamesuke]], the legal heir. Her greatest obstacle was her stepson. In order to make an official claim for her son, she had to travel on the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] from [[Kyoto]] to [[Kamakura]]. In Kamakura she wrote the poetic diary, ''The Waning Moon'' (''[[Izayoi Nikki]]'') as an account of this trip. It is a major classic from the Kamakura period. Nun Abutsu died while waiting for the court’s decision; twenty years later her son legally became the heir and protector of the Fujiwara poetry manuscripts.
==References==
*Carter, Steven D. ed. “Medieval Japanese Writers.” ''Dictionary of Literary Biography''. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999, Vol. 203, pp. 3-9. Retrieved from [http://www.sonic.net/~tabine/JRWWork/Abutsu-ni.pdf http://www.sonic.net/~tabine/JRWWork/Abutsu-ni.pdf].
*Deal, William E. ''Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 218.
*Laffin, Christina. “Diary of the Sixteenth Night.” in Haruo Shirane ed. ''Traditional Japanese Literature: And Anthology, Beginnings to 1600''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. 777-789.
*Reischauer, Edwin and Joseph K. Yamagiwa ed. ''Translations from Early Japanese Literature''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964, pp. 1-135.
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[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
*''Died: [[1283]]''
Nun Abutsu is known as a famous poet and essayist who went to the Court to protect the illustrious poetry legacy of the [[Fujiwara family]] and her sons’ future. Her husband was [[Fujiwara Tameie]] and his father and grandfather were two of the most renowned poets in the late [[Heian Period|Heian]] to early [[Kamakura Period|Kamakura]] eras, [[Fujiwara Teika]] and [[Fujiwara Shunzei]]. After her husband died in [[1275]], she became a nun, yet she also had the goal to follow her husband’s wishes to make her son, [[Fujiwara Tamesuke|Tamesuke]], the legal heir. Her greatest obstacle was her stepson. In order to make an official claim for her son, she had to travel on the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] from [[Kyoto]] to [[Kamakura]]. In Kamakura she wrote the poetic diary, ''The Waning Moon'' (''[[Izayoi Nikki]]'') as an account of this trip. It is a major classic from the Kamakura period. Nun Abutsu died while waiting for the court’s decision; twenty years later her son legally became the heir and protector of the Fujiwara poetry manuscripts.
==References==
*Carter, Steven D. ed. “Medieval Japanese Writers.” ''Dictionary of Literary Biography''. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999, Vol. 203, pp. 3-9. Retrieved from [http://www.sonic.net/~tabine/JRWWork/Abutsu-ni.pdf http://www.sonic.net/~tabine/JRWWork/Abutsu-ni.pdf].
*Deal, William E. ''Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 218.
*Laffin, Christina. “Diary of the Sixteenth Night.” in Haruo Shirane ed. ''Traditional Japanese Literature: And Anthology, Beginnings to 1600''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. 777-789.
*Reischauer, Edwin and Joseph K. Yamagiwa ed. ''Translations from Early Japanese Literature''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964, pp. 1-135.
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
