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What work by Ki no Tsurayuki became the first in the great tradition of Japanese diary literature?

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Tsurayuki's Tosa nikki [Tosa diary] (935), an account of an arduous journey by sea narrated in the first person by a female persona, represents the oldest extant Japanese prose fiction and the beginnings of the great tradition of diary literature.

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