Imakagami

The Imakagami (今鏡^?, "The New Mirror") is a Japanese rekishi-monogatari (historical tale) written in the late Heian period. It is also called the Kokagami (小鏡^?, "The Small Mirror") or the Shoku-Yotsugi (続世継^?, "Yotsugi, Continued").

It has been speculated that the work was compiled in or shortly after 1170;Donald Keene, citing Isao Takehana, stated that the work was probably written between the eighth month of 1174 and the seventh month of 1175. The author is uncertain, but the most likely candidate is the waka poet Fujiwara no Tametsune (藤原為経^?).

The text is in ten volumes, and is told from the point of view of an elderly woman who is described as a granddaughter of Ōyake no Yotsugi (大宅世継^?), the narrator of the Ōkagami, and as having formerly been in the service of Murasaki Shikibu. It has been suggested that the writer chose a woman as his fictional narrator where the Ōkagami's author had chosen two men that he wished to focus on more elegant "feminine" topics than military and political affairs.

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