For a similar rare account I can recommend Ennin, a Japanese monk who visited Tang Dynasty China and wrote about it from ground level. Most chronicles were offi

For a similar rare account I can recommend Ennin, a Japanese monk who visited Tang Dynasty China and wrote about it from ground level. Most chronicles were official and thus missed the juicy details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennin