Role of Poetry in Narrative Prose of the Heian period: The Ise Monogatari and The Tosa Nikki

In the Heian era, written usage of poetry is diverse. Understanding of poetry is an important aspect of daily life, poet's rank is not particularly high, but excellent poets are highly respected. Like the poet's theme is diverse, poets who write poetry are so. Both the story and Nikki are regarded as an important literary work of the time. Two of them are Ise Monogatari and Tosa Diary in particular. Ise-Tales contains a lot of poetry and is described in detail in prose detailing the writing environment of each poet.

Poems are a very common tool in this work, as seen in the example of stories like Iso's Tales and Tosa Diary's nikki. Poems are used in other examples of both lighting styles, but the two examples best demonstrate a lighting style break from stories to more personal voices at the obvious entrance to that poetic style I will. These poems are supplementary to this scene like poetry by the governor of Tosa diary of the former, because it tells the sorrow of the governor when he left Kyoto.

Diary literature is Japanese journal literature type including famous works such as Tosa diary, basketball, Murasakishiki diary. Personal and literary diaries appeared and prospered during the Heian period (Christian AD 794-1192) when the diary began to imitate logs preserved by Chinese government officials. Although scholars have found a diary dating back to the 8th century, most diaries are records of daily work. At that time, Japan regarded China as a model of culture and civilization, trying to reproduce the official diary of the Chinese government. Therefore, the early diary in Japan was de facto, written in kanji, and was influenced by the view of the official male.

His Tosa diary written in 935 records his travel from Tokushima to Kyoto from the viewpoint of so-called female colleagues. Tsuchiyuki abandoned the diary tradition written in Chinese, using Chinese, Waka, and a woman's narrator to convey the emotional aspects of the journey. He is known for his poem Waka and is considered one of 36 poems chosen by Fujiwara no Kaneko. It is also known as one of the editors of Kogane Waka Song. Tsuki wrote one of the preface of "Novel Wakashu" and the other is Chinese. His preface is the first important article about Waka. He wrote his history from the origin of his mythology to his contemporary Waka, and to some of the major poets, and some stiff criticisms of his predecessors like Ariwara Narihira While doing it classified it as a genre.