Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan is part of the Diaries & Journals catalogue. The record identifies Doi, Kochi, 1886-1979 [Translator], Izumi Shikibu, 974?-, Murasaki Shikibu, 978?-, Omori, Annie Shepley [Translator], Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 60,865 words, corresponding to an estimated 265 minutes of reading, and is divided into 8 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 17.0 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.098. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Japanese diaries -- Women authors -- Translations into English, Japan -- Court and courtiers. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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