Munetada, Fujiwara ___ 1062-1141 ___ Japanese ___ courtier

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There's almost no information about Munetada on the internet in English. He was a court noble in the late Heian Period. From 1120, it seems, he organised his diaries (30 years worth) according to subject, and then published them in 160 volumes, largely to teach his son, Muneyoshi, how to carry out court duties.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1087-1138 ___ political society royalty

WEB TEXT LINKS
a bit about
an extract

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
National Museum of Japanese History - some old copies

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries
 

November 2005, July 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.