原百代是日本一位颇有名气的女作家。几十年中,她出过不少译著。一九八二年,七十岁高龄的她,又因创作巨著《武则天》,荣获日本“女性文化大奖”。可是,直到一九八七年,一个偶然的因素,才使我同她有了交往。那年秋天,逛书店时,一套五卷本《武则天》映入我的眼帘。迄今为止,世界上似乎还没有一位学者为武则天花费过如此浓重的笔墨。加之一千多年来,对中国历史上这位 The original EMI is a well-known Japanese woman writer. For decades, she has been a lot of translation. In 1982, she was seventy years old and won the “Female Culture Award” for her creation of “Empress Wu Zetian”. However, it was only by chance in 1987 that I had dealt with her. That autumn, visiting the bookstore, a set of five volumes of “Empress Wu” reflected in my eyes. To date, no one in the world seems to have spent so much time on Wu Zetian. Plus more than a thousand years, the history of China this