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Introduction 1. The ancestor of all romances 2. A ninth-century nobleman and the courtly ideal 3. Pioneering memoirists of the tenth century 4. A court lady's musings 5. A historian-biographer of the eleventh century 6. Short tales of aristocratic life 7. Heian and medieval setsuwa 8. Women memoirists of the medieval period 9. Medieval recluse-memoirists 10. A historian-biographer of the fourteenth century 11. A military tale 12. Two companion booklets 13. Travel accounts by Matsuo Nasho Appendixes Glossary Select Bibliography of works in English translation.