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	Murasaki Shikibu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部 circa 973 – circa 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and servant of the imperial court during the Heian period.
		Murasaki, or Lady Murasaki as she is sometimes known in English, is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous novels in human history.
		Murasaki's mother died while she was a child, so Murasaki was raised, contrary to customs of the time, by her father Tametoki, a scholar and officer of the imperial court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu (416 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu
		Our Murasaki was born into a lesser branch of the powerful Fujiwara family, whose males occupied most of the highest positions in the imperial government.
		Murasaki's father, however, was only a scholar and a provincial governor who served in Harima, Echigo, and Echizen, to which his daughter accompanied him in 996.
		Murasaki married in 998 or 999, but lost her husband in 1001.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/050220.html (922 words)

	Female Hero: Murasaki Shikibu (Women in World History Curriculum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murasaki Shikibu is the best known writer to emerge from Japan's glorious Heian period.
		Her novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji-monogatari) is considered to be one of the world's finest and earliest novels.
		When she was in her early twenties, Lady Murasaki was married to a distant relative.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /heroine9.html (432 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Tale of Murasaki" by Liza Dalby
		As the story begins, Murasaki's mother has just died, and, before long, Murasaki is running the household of her father, Tametoki, a poet and scholar of Chinese who has seen to it that his daughter is similarly well-educated -- a trait that puts her at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to attracting suitors.
		Murasaki doesn't seem to mind this; in fact, as a young woman she is repelled by men, and seems content to embark on a series of intimate relationships with close female friends.
		Ultimately, Murasaki's literary prowess wins her a much-coveted position at court, where she is initially dazzled by but soon becomes disenchanted with the gossip, petty politics and sexual peccadilloes of the imperial circle, and discovers, sadly, that the real is far less compelling than her romantic ideal.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/07/12/dalby/print.html (785 words)

	Tale of Murasaki - Fact and Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murasaki mentions that she happened to be in Lady Nakatsukasa's room, but I invented the meeting with Izumi Shikibu there.
		Murasaki's distaste for the letter and the lady is evident, but leads into a rumination on the exquisite surroundings of the Virgin Priestess's household.
		Later, on page 391, Murasaki's conflicted views on her friendships from court and her bleak satisfaction on managing to avoid scandal, are direct quotes from the Diary, as is her stated desire on page 392 to put her trust in Amida Buddha before it is too late.
	www.lizadalby.com /factfictionpage.htm (2505 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murasaki was born into a lesser but distinguished and cultured branch of the Fujiwara family in the last quarter of the 10th century.
		Murasaki was married at about the age of 20, but her husband died soon after, in 1001, leaving her with a daughter.
		Murasaki's knowledge of the great world is amply exhibited in The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) as well as in her Diary, and it may be assumed that she chronicled something resembling her own life, however idealized.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/murasaki_s.htm (1135 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Tale of Genji \| Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu (973?-1014?) was born into the middle level of the Japanese aristocracy.
		Murasaki Shikibu may well have read some chapters in person to the Empress, and she certainly wrote her tale in that spirit.
		Murasaki Shikibu, born in 978, was a member of Japan's Fujiwara clan, which ruled behind the scenes during the Heian Period by providing the brides and courtesans of all the emperors.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/tale_of_genji.html (1402 words)

	LADY MURASAKI AND HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rokujo is a creature of the forest, Murasaki of the parlor.
		Of course, Lady Murasaki, an upholder of forms, may not have given her readers an adequate view of her society since he would not have diagnosed repression as a psychological, but as a supernatural phenomenon.
		Lady Murasaki was as dedicated to pleasure as her fellow courtiers and as incapable as they of understanding what the future held in store.
	members.cox.net /ramero/ladymurasaki.htm (5365 words)

	The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
		Murasaki writes of her characters: "Originally I had thought of Genji as the center of this universe of women.
		The re-creation of Murasaki's life is a dazzling accomplishment, bursting with the colors, fashion, and poetry of court life, the natural landscape of Japan, and the rites and rituals of Buddhism.
		During her marriage to a high court official, Murasaki is fascinated by her husband's tales of the politics and sexual intrigue of court life--he has access to the inner courts that her father never did.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400032784&view=rg (1852 words)

	Baroness Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu was born around 978 A.D. in Kyoto, Japan to the Fujiwara family.
		While in her early 20's it was necessary for her to marry a distant relative and together, they had their only child, a daughter, in 999.
		In 1935, her book was translated into English by Arthur Waley, and it was produced as an animated movie in 1987 and honored as a "cultural masterpiece." Murasaki Shikibu was the best known author from the Heian period in Japan and may very well have been the first modern novelist in the world.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/murasakishikibu.html (327 words)

	Faculty Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Murasaki learned how to read Chinese by listening to her brother while he was taught the language.
		Important to understanding the beginning of Murasaki's novel is to understand the meaning of the word genji.
		Her jealousy is responsible for the death of Aoi and the destruction of Murasaki.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /worldlit/faculty/murasaki/murasaki.htm (1486 words)

	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - The Rites
		It would have been ill mannered of Murasaki to insist on having her way, and she would be running against her own deeper wishes if she opposed his; and so resentment at his unyielding ways was tempered by a feeling that she might be at fault herself.
		Murasaki's place was in a walled room to the west of the main hall, sequestered but for doors at the south and east opening upon the ceremonies.
		Murasaki had died on the fourteenth and it was now the morning of the fifteenth.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Genji/00000051.htm (4002 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: The Tale of Murasaki
		This "autobiographical" novel is rooted in Murasaki's scrappy diary (in fact contains "large chunks" of it), in the latest scholarship of the period, in The Tale of Genji itself and in writings by Murasaki's contemporaries.
		This is Dalby's Murasaki to a T: a lady with a "reputation for erudition, not charm," as she wryly puts it.
		Murasaki's style is so candid and lively, even filtered through Waley's stately prose, it is no stretch to believe she would have used words like "devastated," "smitten," "chat up" and "dumbstruck," had they been available to her.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/books/reviews/taleofmurasaki0724.htm (801 words)

	StrongGenji
		She was the daughter of Fujiwara Tametoki, a member of a minor branch of the powerful family and a scholar of Chinese, assigned to the Board of Rites (Puette 50).
		Lady Murasaki often attended her brother's lessons and was such a quick learner that she often outshone her brother (Waley vii).
		Around 1003 Lady Murasaki began work on The Tale of Genji when she was asked by the Empress to come up with something more entertaining than the regular stories that were so well known they had become boring (Puette 51).
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/genji.html (1066 words)

	The Tale of Murasaki : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		As the stories become public, however, she is forced, against her own natural reticence, to take up a position at court, and the Genji stories become a conduit for commenting on the mores and intrigues of court life.
		Recreating the intricate world of 11th-century Japan--the political and sexual machinations, the preoccupation with clothing and custom, the difficult and tenuous position of courtiers, the intensity of female friendships in a male-dominated society--Dalby shows us how Murasaki's sensibilities were shaped by and responded to the culture in which she lived.
		Dalby knits Lady Murasaki's own poems and memories (recorded in the famous court lady's diary) into a story which curiously and wonderfully parallels The Tale of Genji, while presenting a guess at what her life may have been like.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0385497946/The_Tale_of_Murasaki_:_A_Novel.html (601 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu
		The woman we call Murasaki Shikibu ("Murasaki" probably from the name of her heroine; "Shikibu" from a post once held by her father) came from a lesser branch of the powerful Fujiwara clan of Japan.
		Murasaki had a daughter in 999; she was widowed in 1001.
		Since she has no "court name," Murasaki seems not to have held an official court post, but rather was employed by Fujiwara Michinaga, the most powerful man in the country, to serve his empress daughter.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/murasaki.html (5990 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Critic St. Louis Post-Dispatch 06-11-2000 The Japan of Lady Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" is a foreign realm indeed, separated...
		particularly drawn to Fujitsubo, the emperor's favorite wife, and to Murasaki, both of whom strongly resemble her, and both of whom are...
		Murasaki Shikibu, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs: A Translation and Study (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)
	encyclopedia.st /Murasaki_Shikibu (344 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Murasaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If the planet Medea was a playground for writers' imaginations, the star Murasaki seems a pigeonhole that writers must subordinate their imagination and style to fit.
		The arrival of human colonists in the Murasaki system to explore and settle the twin worlds of Genji and Chujo forms the background for this shared-world anthology.
		Instead of being a collaborative novel, "Murasaki" is a mixed bag of science fiction stories that share a setting, each written by a different award-winning author.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553082299?v=glance (956 words)

	Murasaki 312 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Following their standing orders, the Enterprise investigated the anomaly and discovered that it had a negative ionic concentration at 1.64x109 metres and was emitting radiation at a wavelength of 370 Angstroms, with harmonics upward along the entire upper spectrum.
		The effects of Murasaki badly compromised the performance of both communications and sensor systems across this region.
		Although Murasaki 312 began to dissipate somewhat as the Enterprise left, the anomaly continued to exist for at least the next century.
	www.angelfire.com /pe2/relentless10/Murasaki312.html (210 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu: Japan's First Novelist
		Her real name is unknown, and it is thought she was called Murasaki after the heroine in her novel.
		Murasaki charmed the court with her beautiful verses, as is evident from the diary she kept from 1007 to 1010, the main source of information about her life.
		The novel demonstrates Murasaki's sensitivity to human elnotions, her love of nature, and her great learning in many subjects, including Chinese.
	www.picpal.com /genji.html (702 words)

	Welcome to Murasaki Japanese Restaurant and Foods
		Murasaki caters to Japanese tastes with a wide variety of Japanese culinary selections prepared with attention to detail and texture.
		Murasaki also offers an exciting selection of American foods served in the Japanese style.
		Murasaki is well known for its outstanding Sushi and Sashimi creations.
	www.murasakifoods.com (55 words)

	The Inner Life of an 11th Century Writer / Novel imagines how Murasaki Shikibu's `The Tale of Genji' came to be
		Far from the capital, Murasaki eventually falls in love with the son of a Chinese dignitary, with whom she exchanges poetry, myth and mirth.
		Murasaki, by now widowed, is ill- equipped to deal with the rivalries, sexual high jinks and formalities of court life, but her writing affords her leeway to be both insider and outsider.
		The imperial court sponsored competitions and anthologies, and Michinaga knew that Murasaki was a valuable asset because she would preserve his reign in words.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/16/RV40109.DTL&type=printable (949 words)

	Sepulcher of Murasaki Shikibu and Ono no Takamura
		Lady Murasaki lies entombed in a great barrow (or sits - noble Japanese were buried in a sitting position), and to the right of her grave is that of another literary luminary, Ono no Takamura (see below).
		She was an attendant to Empress Akirako of Emperor Ichijo as a court lady, her name at court being Shikibu while the name Murasaki Shikibu was an endearing sobriquet.
		The voluminous novel "The Tale of Genji", "Diary of Murasaki Shikibu", an incisive product of her intellect along with Anthology Murasaki Shikibu are the pre-eminent works responsible [for preserving] the name of Lady Murasaki.
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /shikibu.htm (566 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Revered as Japan's greatest author of narrative prose, Shikibu Murasaki, a wellborn lady and courtier, wrote what is thought to be the first novel nearly 1,000 years ago.
		Murasaki kept a detailed diary at court that reveals her as a censorious and tart personality.
		Murasaki's sensitivity to human emotion and exquisite delineation of the various women were uniquely imaginative in her time.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/Murasaki/a75.html (165 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Her real name is unknown; it is conjectured that she acquired the sobriquet of Murasaki from the name of the heroine of her novel.
		His family name, Minamoto, is Genji in Chinese (Gen being the Chinese reading of the symbol for Minamoto), and it is immortalized as the embodiment of ancient courtly ways in The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu, one of the world's earliest and...
		Shikibu Murasaki's The Tale of Genji' is not only brilliant writing, but it is believed to be the world's oldest full novel.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054322?tocId=9054322 (749 words)

	The Diary of Lady Murasaki - Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu is best known as the author of the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji.
		Much of the text focusses on the events surrounding the birth of a son to Empress Shoshi, in whose service Murasaki was.
		Murasaki is a good (and well-situated) observer, and Bowring's translation reads effortlessly.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/japanold/murasaki1.htm (595 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
		Her daughter is adopted by Murasaki and eventually becomes empress, giving birth to Prince Niou, one of the chief figures in the last ten chapters.
		Murasaki till she realizes that the girl is too childish (at 13) to interest the mature Genji that much.
		She is, however, the mother of his son Kaoru, who is actually the fruit of an illicit affair with Kashiwagi.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/genjicha.htm (3049 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
		Genji's love Murasaki is his child by a concubine.
		Murasaki (moo-rah-sah-kee) Lady Murasaki first enters the novel as a 10 year old child.
		She is the daughter of Prince Hyobu, but Genji carries her off because she reminds him of Hyobu's sister Fujitsubo, whom he loves.
	uwp.edu /~canary/genjicha.htm (1326 words)

	AllRefer.com - Murasaki Shikibu (Asian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Murasaki Shikibu[mOO´´rAsA´kE shE´´kEbOO´] Pronunciation Key, c.978–1031?, Japanese novelist, court figure at the height of the Heian period (795–1185).
		Known also as Lady Murasaki, she is celebrated as the author of the romantic novel Genji-Monogatari [tale of Genji], one of the first great works of fiction to be written in Japanese.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Murasaki Shikibu
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Murasaki.html (214 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.
		It is impossible, after finishing this beautiful book, to believe that Murasaki Shikibu has been dead for a thousand years - through her diary and poetry you sense a real human spirit.
		The diary, and Murasaki herself, are even more appealing when contrasted against the grandeur and ritual of the Heian court she served.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/014043576X (503 words)

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