# Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan/Appendix

APPENDIX
A OLD JAPANESE CALENDAR
The year was divided according to a Lunar Calendar, which was one month or so in advance of the present Solar Calendar.
Names of the Months
First month; Social month; Spring-birth month. Second month; Clothes-again-doubled month; Little-grass-growing month. Third month; Ever-growing month; Flowery month; Dreaming month. Fourth month; Deutzia month; First Summer month. Fifth month; Rice-sprout month; Tachibana month. Sixth month; Watery month (rice-fields filled with water). Seventh month; Rice-ear month; Literary month (people composed poems on the star festival). Eighth month; Rice-ear-swelling month; Mid-autumn. Ninth month; Chrysanthemum month; Long-night month. Tenth month; Gods-absent month; Thunderless month; Little Spring. Eleventh month; Frost month. Twelfth month; Last month; Spring-waiting month.
B CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE DIARIES
| 974. | Izumi Shikibu, the daughter of Masamune, Governor of the Province of Echizen, born. |
| 977. | Prince Tametaka (future lover of Izumi Shikibu) born. |
| 978. | Prince Atsumichi (future lover of Izumi Shikibu) born. Murasaki Shikibu, daughter of Fujiwara Tametoki, born. |
| 980. | Prince Yasuhito (afterwards the Mikado Ichijo) born. |
| 988. | Akiko, Michinaga's first daughter, born. |
| 990. | Sadako, daughter of Michinaga's eldest brother Michitaka, comes to the Court, and later becomes Queen to Mikado Ichijo. |
| 991. | Sei-Shōnagon comes to Court as one of Queen Sadako's ladies. |
| 994. | Prince Atsumichi comes of age and marries the third daughter of Michitaka. |
| 995. | Izumi Shikibu marries Tachibana Michisada. Prince Atsumichi divorces his first wife. |
| 996. | Prince Atsumichi marries again. |
| 997. | Murasaki Shikibu goes to Echizen with her father who has been made Governor of the Province. Akiko joins the Court. Izumi Shikibu's first daughter born. |
| 998. | Murasaki Shikibu returns to Kiōto. |
| 999. | Murasaki Shikibu marries Fujiwara Nobutaka. |
| 1000. | Akiko made second queen. Murasaki Shikibu's daughter born. |
| 1001. | Pestilence. Murasaki Shikibu's husband dies. Conflagration of the Palace. |
| 1002. | Murasaki Shikibu probably began the writing of the "Genji Monogatari." Sei-Shōnagon probably began the "Makura-no-Sōshi." ​ |
| | In June, Prince Tametaka (Izumi Shikibu's lover; her husband, from whom she was divorced, had died earlier) dies. Izumi Shikibu begins a liaison with Prince Atsumichi. |
| 1003. | Izumi Shikibu goes to live at the South Palace. |
| 1004. | Izumi Shikibu leaves Prince Atsumichi's palace, and marries Fujiwara Yasumasa. |
| 1005. | Murasaki Shikibu joins the Court. Conflagration of the Palace. Izumi Shikibu goes to the Province of Tango, her husband having been appointed Governor. |
| 1007. | Akiko (second queen) gives birth to Prince Atsusada. Murasaki Shikibu begins to keep her diary. |
| 1008. | Izumi Shikibu returns to become lady-in-waiting at the Court. |
| 1009. | Fujiwara Takasué's daughter (author of Sarashina Diary) born. |
| 1017. | Fujiwara Takasué appointed Province Governor, goes to his province with his daughter. |
| 1021. | Takasué's daughter returns to Kiōto. Sarashina Diary begun. |