![]() ![]() ![]() She also draws variously from Bai Juyi’s works and Sima Qian’s “Shi Ji”, while the words used by Hikaru Genji to seduce women borrows from a Tang dynasty fiction named “Visiting an Immortal’s Cavern”.Īs a poet, she likes the three generations of “Kōkinshū”, “Gōsanshū” and “Shūishū”. Murasaki Shikibu is inspired by the character modelling in “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”, and heavily influenced in both expression, concept and characters by “The Tales of Ise”. Her favourite stories are “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter” and “The Tales of Ise”. (her diary, by contrast, is grounded in reality) Also enjoys depicting the elegance of poems and romance in glamorous prose. Kaoruko (Shikibu), who was thus widowed at a young age, started writing a story during the Autumn of that same year namely ――― her opus “The Tale of Genji”, which spans 54 volumes in total. Married to Fujiwara no Nobutaka – who was significantly older than her – in her twenties, she bore him a son, before he dies three years into their marriage. With her lineage on her father’s side renowned for being academics (Her paternal great-grandfather, Fujiwara no Kanesuke, was not only active as a poet, but also penned chronicles and other works like both volumes of “The Chronicles of Prince Shōtoku”, (and was known by the moniker of ’The Riverside Middle Counselor’), it would be obvious how she would be raised to be acquainted to books and texts. She was born to Fujiwara no Tametoki, a scholar in Han studies and a poet. Her poems are also selected for the “Later Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems” as well as subsequent poem anthologies. She has written works such as “The Tale of Genji”, “Lady Murasaki Collection” and “The Diary of Lady Murasaki”. The exact circumstances of her life is unknown. Increases party’s damage against Demonic enemies ![]()
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