infatuation in literature, and how this can delude a person - by giving false information on life expectations, how it can interfere with Buddhist salvation, as well as a theme on how literature can console a person. Dreams The Sarashina Diary is considered unique among other Heian diaries because dreams are an important part in her work. There are eleven dreams identified in the Sarashina Diary. Some of the dreams are: Memorizing the Lotus Sutra The construction of ornamental stream at the Hexagonal Hall, and an order to worship Amaterasu Monk’s divine dream of a mirror offered by Lady Sarashina’s mother A good omen bestowed by the Inari Shrine The appearance of Amida Buddha in the front garden of Lady Sarashina’s house The dreams in Sarashina NIkki are believed to convey Lady Sarashina’s dissatisfaction with society. It is a work that portray her personal ways of coping with her social issues of her time, that is to be submerged in dreams and neglecting reality. Manuscripts The most authoritative copy of Sarashina Nikki is one produced by Fujiwara no Teika in the 13th century, some two hundred years after Lady Sarashina wrote the original. Teika is one of the most famous poets during his day, and he was one of the members of the committee that compiled the Shinkokinshu, and was the sole compiler of the Shinchokusenshu. He played an important role in preserving and passing on the Heian texts that have come to constitute the canon of Japanese classical literature. Teika copied Lady Sarashina's work once, but his first transcription was borrowed and lost; the manuscript he worked from was itself a second-generation copy of a lost transcription. To compound the problems, sometime in the 17th century Teika's transcription was re-bound, but the binder changed the order of the original in seven places, making the diary less valuable and more difficult for scholars to understand. In 1924, Nobutsuna Sasaki and Kōsuke Tamai, two classical literature scholars, examined the original Teika manuscript and finally discovered what had happened, leading to a reevaluation of Sarashina's work. It is from this correctly re-ordered version that all modern versions are made. Notes Late Old Japanese texts Diaries of the Heian period