| | Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Murasaki was born into a lesser but distinguished and cultured branch of the Fujiwara family in the last quarter of the 10th century. |
 | | Her father, Fujiwara Tamatoki, an official and poet, was at one time a provincial governor; his grandfather was a poet. |
 | | The character of Genji may be based in part on the personality of Fujiwara Korechika (975-1010), a nephew of Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027), a great statesman and distant relative of Lady Murasaki. |
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