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Music Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 383, hell hath no fury.

This week, I want to take us back a thousand years to the Heon era to talk about a text that is generally known to specialists, one of the pieces of Heon period literature that tends to get a bit less airtime than its more famous cousins.

I'm not saying that nobody's heard of

Kagorniki or that it's unusually obscure, but it's certainly far less famous than the

big works of the era, your tale of Genji, your pillow books, and such. Yet, despite that, I think

it's an incredibly fascinating work of literature, both in its own

right and for what it says about the era that it was written in, so come with me as we take

a deep dive into this fascinating text.

Before we get into things too deeply, we should probably talk about the name.

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