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	Murasaki Shikibu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lady 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.
		Her diary states that she was nicknamed "Murasaki" at court, after a character in The Tale of Genji.
		A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel was written by Liza Dalby, who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a geisha.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu (384 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu
		Lady Murasaki's mother died while she was a child, so Murasaki was raised, contrary to customs of the time, by her father, a scholar and officer of the imperial court.
		During this period of Japanese history, couples lived separately and children were raised by the mother and her family.
		A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel[?] was written by Liza Crihfield Dalby[?], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a geisha.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Murasaki_Shikibu.html (220 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu: Her Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The name of Murasaki Shikibu was that used for a court lady with "Murasaki" being used as a given name while "Shikibu" refers to her father's position at the court.
		Murasaki Shikibu was born in a middle-level family of nobility during the middle of the Heian Period.
		Murasaki's childhood was not a happy one as her mother passing away soon after she was born followed by her elder sister on whom she depended.
	www.iz2.or.jp /english/what/life.htm (355 words)

	The Murasaki Shikibu Diary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It covers the period from autumn of 1008, when Empress Akiko was ready to give birth, to the New Year's festivities of 1010 A.D. It sheds light on the way of life and everyday activities that are not mentioned in historical chronicles.
		It also records the author's appraisal of her colleagues Izumi Shikibu and Akazome Emon, and of her rival Sei Shonagon, as well as the author's own views on life.
		In the 13th century (during the Kamakura period), an unknown artist painted the Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki (color, handscroll).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Murasaki_Shikibu_Diary (150 words)

	Tale of Murasaki - Fact and Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The historical diary begins with a description of the garden at the empress's mother Rinshi's mansion where Murasaki is among a group of ladies attending Empress Shôshi as she is about to give birth to her first child.
		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.
	www.lizadalby.com /factfictionpage.htm (2505 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History Month - Biographies - Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (1009 words)

	the_murasaki_shikibu_diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikibu - Japanese Novelist, Poet, and Servant of the...
		She has written a diary, andquot;The Murasaki Shikibu Diaryandquot; from which excerpts can be found.
		The Murasaki Shikibu Diary (translated by Ivan Morris) What could be more refreshing than the tart envy and barely...
	the_murasaki_shikibu_diary.networklive.org (303 words)

	Female Hero: Murasaki Shikibu (Women in World History Curriculum)
		Murasaki Shikibu is the best known writer to emerge from Japan's glorious Heian period.
		Shikibu was born into the Fujiwara family, daughter of the governor of a province, who also was a well known scholar.
		Shikibu may have begun The Tale of the Genji before she came to court.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /heroine9.html (432 words)

	Female Hero: Murasaki Shikibu-Resources (Women in World History Curriculum)
		She has written a diary, "The Murasaki Shikibu Diary" from which excerpts can be found.
		Letters and diary writing among the ladies of the court were instrumental in the development of prose writing, especially the form of "poem tales" which were a type of poetic biography - a mixture of fact and fiction.
		Murasaki was known to be very accomplished at this skill upon which both men and women were judged.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /moreMurasaki.html (339 words)

	Diary of Lady Murasaki, Penguin Classics, Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu gives wonderfully detailed descriptions of ceremonies, dress, and glimpses of daily lives of females in the court.
		This diary was perhaps written for the author's daughter, instructing her on how to behave and what to expect if she became a lady-in-waiting for one of the higher nobility.
		Murasaki's diary gives an exuberant description of court life and gives the reader a look into her personal thoughts.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0014043576XP.html (534 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu - TheBestLinks.com - Chinese language, Emperor of Japan, Japan, Japanese language, ...
		Murasaki Shikibu - TheBestLinks.com - Chinese language, Emperor of Japan, Japan, Japanese language,...
		Murasaki Shikibu, Chinese language, Emperor of Japan, Japan, Japanese language...
		She is well known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous novels in Japanese.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Murasaki_Shikibu.html (347 words)

	»»Reviews for Murasaki Shikibu«« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikibu was one of the most active and brilliant ladies at the Heian court.
		The Tale of Murasaki is about Shikibu Murasaki, a woman in 10th century Heian Japan and author of one of the worlds first and finest novels: The Tale of Genji.
		The story itself is written for a modern English audience, a fictional reconstruction of Murasaki's diary based on the small bits that remain of the real thing and a large number of her poems.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/M/Murasaki_Shikibu (3452 words)

	The Author, Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shikibu designates an office her father once held, literally meaning bureau of ceremonial, and Murasaki is a nickname after the heroine in her book.
		While there are sections of her journal that have survived over the ages, collected in the Murasaki Shikibu Diary, she rarely spoke about herself or even her book, but rather focused on the events occuring at court.
		Scholars also believe that Murasaki had written Genji while serving the empress, but no one is quite certain if the text that we have today is the complete work, or even it was finished in the first place, thanks to the ambiguous ending of the last chapter.
	home.neo.rr.com /taleofgenji/web/html/murasaki.html (229 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lady Murasaki's mother died while she was a child, so Murasaki was raised, contrary to customs of the time, by her father, ascholar and officer of the imperial court.
		During Heian -era Japan, couples livedseparately and children were raised by the mother and her family.
		The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilationof 128 poems written by Murasaki.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/murasaki-shikibu-16898.html (241 words)

	The Tale of Genji Summary Study Guide by Lady Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu wrote the long novel The Tale of Genji, a diary, a collection of short lyric poems, and assorted poems found only in royally commissioned anthologies.
		Murasaki Shikibu was born in the Japanese capital of Kyoto.
		Murasaki, which literally means "violet," probably refers to the character in her own novel.
	www.bookrags.com /guides/talegenji/bio.htm (332 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu
		Shikibu, which means "Bureau of Ceremonial," refers to a post once held by her father, and Murasaki, the name of a plant that produces a purple dyestuff, is her tale's main heroine.
		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.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/050220.html (958 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.
		Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs: a translation and study / by Richard Bowring (Princeton library of Asian translations).
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/murasaki.html (5931 words)

	The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1996)
		If it weren't for the fact that the author is the illustrious Murasaki Shikibu, the woman who penned the famous Genji monogatari, this diary would not have enjoyed nearly as much distinction as it does.
		Lady Murasaki (real name unknown) came from a minor branch of the ruling Fujiwara family, and entered court service around 1006, having survived a husband and written substantial chunks of her magnum opus.
		This produces a conflict between her public persona and her inner self, which leads Lady Murasaki to the inevitable conclusion that others must "look upon me as a dullard." Still, given her wit and her talent, one suspects she was not one.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/d/diary-of-lady-murasaki.html (958 words)

	EA55 Rdg Wks 2-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji is not an easy book to read without help (and from about the 12th century onward, people nearly always read it with a handbook -- a kind of Cliff or Monarch Notes to the text).
		Characters appear and disappear from the story without warning; often two events are simply given one after another and one has to guess at cause and effect, etc. The poems are not that easy for us to understand, particularly in translation.
		Murasaki Shikibu's diary entry is an interesting "real life" counterpart to the discussion of women in Chapter 2 (The Broom Tree) of Genji.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/sbklein/gender/RDGWk02-3.htm (1270 words)

	Tale of Murasaki - the Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Diaries kept by court ladies of this era were a well-accepted literary genre.
		Several other famous women's diaries were contemporary with Murasaki's work-her "Auntie's" Gossamer Diary, Izumi Shikibu's Diary, and Sei Shônagon's Pillow Book (which was essentially the same type of thing).
		For a detailed description of precisely what sections of my story are drawn from the material of the diary, and what are made up, click on Fact and Fiction in The Tale of Murasaki.
	www.taleofmurasaki.com /diarypage.htm (234 words)

	Murasaki shikibu, Genji monogatari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Murasaki dies, Genji loses the meaning of his life, goes into the way of Buddha, and soon dies.
		Murasaki longs to be a nun, leaving all the worries of love behind.
		Fujiwara's concerns in Kagero Diary were also about her hasband's concubines and his cold treatment of her.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/murasaki_genji.html (960 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu: Japan's First Novelist
		The Tale of Genji was published by the female aristocrat, Murasaki Shikibu, somewhere around the year one thousand eleven.
		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.
	www.picpal.com /genji.html (702 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu (978?-1026?) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		English Title: The tale of Genji / [by] Murasaki Shikibu ; translated with an introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker.
		Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs Murasaki Shikibu, b.
		Diary of Lady Murasaki Notes: Her Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs, 1982.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcshikibu.htm (1526 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Details about Murasaki Shikibu and her life are not really know.
		It is known that Murasaki is the daughter of a governer of a province in the Fujiwara family.
		It was at this time that she kept a diary which described court life.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/genji/bio.html (251 words)

	Dolls in the Tale of Genji
		We know a bit about her--she kept a diary of her life in the Empress's court for several years, and we know the positions her father and husband held and her daughter's name.
		Her own name, "Murasaki," happens also to be the nickname of her most important female character, so we can assume that it too was a nickname.
		Murasaki does not explain the ceremony, but evidently the casting of a doll or dolls into the sea was assumed to be part of the purification ceremony.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/genji.htm (2709 words)

	The Diary of Lady Murasaki - Murasaki Shikibu
		Murasaki Shikibu is best known as the author of the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji.
		While in service at the Heian court she also kept a diary of sorts, part of which, covering the years 1008-1010, has survived.
		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.
	www.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/genjicha.htm (3049 words)

	Murasaki Shikib and Bowring (1982) Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs: A translation and study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikib and Bowring (1982) Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs: A translation and study
		Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs: A translation and study
		Translation of Murasaki Shikibu nikki and Murasaki Shikibu shåu.
	www.getcited.org /pub/102150421 (45 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikibu (978?-1026?), Japanese novelist, one of her country's greatest writers, and the author of what is generally considered the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji (first trans.
		Little is known about the author (including her real name), except that she was married to Fujiwara Nobutaka and that she kept a diary of court life, which she transformed into a novel after her husband's death.
		The novel paints a charming and apparently accurate picture of Japanese court life in the Heian period, during the reign of Empress Akiko, whom Murasaki Shikibu attended.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/shikibu.html (190 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu - new and used books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Murasaki Shikibu - Murasaki Shikibu, her diary and poetic memoirs: A translation and study (Princeton library of Asian translations)
		Murasaki Shikibu - Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Genji (Genji Monogatari).
		Murasaki Shikibu, Herberth E. Herlitschka - Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Genji, wie sie geschrieben wurde um das Jahr eintausend unserer Zeitrechnung von Murasaki, genannt Shikibu, Hofdame der Kaiserin von Japan.
	www.isbn.pl /A-Murasaki-Shikibu (711 words)

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