Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, 'Lady Murasaki'; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian...

Izumi Shikibu (Japanese: 和泉式部, born 976?) was a mid-Heian period Japanese poet. She is a member of the Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals (中古三十六歌仙,...

The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title given to a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese...

The Ministry of Ceremonial Affairs (式部省, Shikibu-shō) was one of eight ministries of the Japanese imperial court. It was established by the Taihō Code...

literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. The original...

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The Murasaki Shikibu Prize (Japanese: 紫式部文学賞, romanized: Murasaki Shikibu bungaku shō) is a Japanese literary award awarded annually to an outstanding...

Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, which was extremely important to the Heian court, and one of the first novels ever written. Murasaki Shikibu's contemporary and...

is nigiri-ihi (握飯) or "crumpled rice": In Murasaki Shikibu's 11th-century diary Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, she writes of people eating tonjiki rice balls...

during which a distinctly indigenous Japanese culture emerged. Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji and the lyrics of Japan's national anthem "Kimigayo"...

modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular...

was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. She was the daughter of Izumi Shikibu and Tachibana no Michisada (橘道貞), the governor of Mutsu. Starting around...

starring Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. The series is the 63rd NHK taiga drama. Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. In the series, she is called Mahiro...

called purple gromwell the colour purple (紫) It may also refer to: Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji Murasaki no Ue, one of the main character...

Murasaki Shikibu, has never been discovered as a result of this convention. The author was named after Murasaki's sobriquet, and the name Shikibu comes from...

Hikaru Genji (光源氏) is the protagonist of Murasaki Shikibu's Heian-era Japanese novel The Tale of Genji."Hikaru" means "shining", deriving from his appearance...

Paper as the essential carrier: Murasaki Shikibu writing her The Tale of Genji in the early 11th century, 17th-century depiction...

In 2010, Kawakami's first full-length novel, Heaven, won the Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Literature. In 2012, an English translation of her short story...

Art Museum in Nagoya. The image of Murasaki Shikibu is taken from the Gotoh edition of the Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki held at the Gotoh Museum. Many...

December 20, 2022. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. Translation by Edward Seidensticker. Knopf, 1978. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. Translation...

Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. She was the daughter of Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Nobutaka [ja]. Her given name was Katako (賢子), although...

The Board of Ceremonies (式部職, Shikibu-shoku) is a department of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. The board is the chief administration charged...

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Court. An example is Murasaki Shikibu, whose name "Shikibu" is not the equivalent to a surname, but refers to Shikibu-shō, the Ministry of Ceremonials...

no Okurimono (1986) Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni (1987) Murasaki Shikibu Genji Monogatari (1987) Hiatari Ryōkō! Ka - su - mi: Yume no Naka ni Kimi...

Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, The Tale of the Minamoto clan) by Murasaki Shikibu, an important 11th-century classical Japanese novel. The Tale of the Heike...

father of Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki", author of The Tale of Genji, born ca. 970 or 973). Tametoki's position at the Shikibu-shō ministry was what...

Book) by Sei Shōnagon, and Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu (herself a Fujiwara). Indigenous art also flourished under the Fujiwara...

the man whose face appeared in the tea reappears, calling himself Heinai Shikibu. Sekinai runs to tell the other attendants, but they laugh and tell him...

Monogatari), written in the early 11th century by female courtier Murasaki Shikibu, is considered the pre-eminent novel of Heian fiction. Other important...