The Imakagami (今鏡, "The New Mirror"[1]) is a Japanese rekishi-monogatari (historical tale) written in the late Heian period.
[2][6] The text is in ten volumes,[2][3][4] and is told from the point of view of an elderly woman who is described as a granddaughter of Ōyake no Yotsugi (大宅世継), the narrator of the Ōkagami, and as having formerly been in the service of Murasaki Shikibu.
[2] It has been suggested that the writer chose a woman as his fictional narrator where the Ōkagami's author had chosen two men that he wished to focus on more elegant "feminine" topics than military and political affairs.
[8] The work begins with a group of pilgrims visiting the temples of Yamato Province being approached by an elderly woman who, when asked if she lives in the region, says that she lived in the Capital for one hundred years and then in Yamashiro Province for another fifty, before moving to Yamato.
[1] Although it was written during the period of rule by the Taira military clan (Japanese Wikipedia article), its focus is on waka poetry and the affairs of nobles at court.