"Sarashina Diary"

 Another example of showing her self-deprecating humor is to depict the Daughter of Sugawara Takasue being perverse:

"On the twenty-fifth of the Tenth month of the next year the Capital was in great excitement over the purification ceremonies before the Great Ceremony.

"For my part I wanted to set out that same day for Hase-dera Temple for my own religious purification. They stopped me, saying it was a sight to be seen only once in one reign; that even the country-people come to see the procession, and it was madness to leave the city that very day. 'Your deeds will be spread abroad and people will gossip about you,' said my brother angrily. 'No, no, let the person have her own will'; and according to my wish my husband let me start. His kindness touched me, but on the other hand I pitied those who accompanied, who with longing hearts wanted to see the ceremony."

About 2 centuries later, Yoshida Kenko (1283-1352) wrote, "Is it only when flowers are in full bloom and the moon is perfectly clear that we should appreciate them?"  Was her perversity ahead of her time?

https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Sarashina_Diary.pdf