The author starts the diary from her return to Heiankyo (the present-day Kyoto city) between September and October in 1020 with her father, who had been appointed as an officer at a kokufu in Kazusa Province (the present Chiba Prefecture) in Togoku (the eastern part of Japan, particularly Kanto region). |
東国・上総国(現在の千葉県)の国府に任官していた父とともに寛仁4年9月平安京(現在の京都市)へ帰国するところから起筆。 |