Edition 2000. The condition is satisfactory. At the end of the “golden age” of Japanese tradition and culture - the Heian era (794-1185), in anticipation of a more severe and courageous “samurai era”, the Japanese felt the need to realize themselves. Several works were created containing biographies of outstanding people of the era. The most famous among these stories - “The Great Mirror” (O:kagami) - was presumably written at the end of the 11th century. The compositionally complex work is a series of biographies of emperors and high dignitaries from the Fujiwara clan. The heroes of the Great Mirror act in other classic works: in Ise Monogatari, Yamato Monogatari, in the Diary of an Ephemeral Life, in the Tale of Glory. The poems they composed were included in the famous “imperial” anthologies of the “golden age” - “Kokinshu”, “Shinkokinshu” and many others. `The Great Mirror` is written in the genre of `conversations of initiates`, the memoirs of two fantastic elders, witnesses to events of immemorial antiquity.

The translation is accompanied by research, detailed comments and an extensive reference apparatus.

Into Russian the monument was translated for the first time.