Makon no Shimanushi ge (Report of Makon no Shimanushi)

{i=>[kyōshi], content=>[This document offers a glimpse of the personal life of someone working in the official Scriptorium administered by the Nara-period government as a , , one of the scribes who copied Buddhist sutras. The scribe is named Mako no Shimanushi (dates unknown), and he requests four days leave to stay on at home and care for a gravely ill relative. This treasured transmission of the voice and experience of a lower-level bureaucrat who lived during the Nara period (710–794) comes from the Shōsōin.]}

— Museum description: Nara National Museum (CC BY 4.0), via ColBase / Japan Search.