The Japanese courtier-poet Ki no Tsurayaki returns…
936 CE
The Japanese courtier-poet Ki no Tsurayaki returns to Kyoto from Tosa province, where he had been the provincial governor, a journey that becomes the basis of the earliest surviving Japanese poetic diary, the Tosa nikki.
Tsurayaki maintains the pose of being a woman write in producing The Tosa Diary in 936.