Around 978 a woman wrote the first novel in recorded history, the Tale of Genji, which chronicles the life of an ideal courtier and his romantic liaisons around the capital.

• 约978一个女人写的第一本小说中记载的历史，源氏物语，其中记述了一个理想的生活和他的浪漫朝臣联络各地的资本。