This essay is intended to give a cultural analyse to the female images in The Events of Ancient time, a classic of Japanese literature. It holds that the female characters in this book represent the three levels: in the myth of the remote antiquity showed primarily that Japanese women valued political affairs, the duties of household and feelings; in the fames about the Mikados of the past dynasties, the Japanese women were incarnated as the ones who dealt with the relationship between political affairs and household from emotion and love; since Mikado, they have been put into those who regard...
