![]() ![]() “Be it grass or wood, if it lies within the nation of my great king, whereever you may set foot, will be a demon’s dwelling”.Īs one named an ‘Immortal of Poetry’ in both the list of Mid-Antiquity and Female Poets, reciting a demon-sealing poem of this sort would be child’s play.Īs a matter of fact, her poem is even collected within Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Serving four inhuman demons, was able to disperse the four demons by reciting the poem: ‘On the State Enemies of Japan’, the 16th volume in “The Chronicle of Great Peace”, describes how Kinotomoo, sent to subdue the rebel Fujiwara no Chikata She reads them zealously whenever she finds time to do so. ![]() She has great interest in stories and poems from both her own time and region, and also foreign lands or different eras. In her life, she grew accustomed to a myriad of poem anthologies. 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.Ī well-behaved, honour student-esque type.Įxcellent upbringing, prudent and quiet by nature. 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 pennedĬhronicles 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. ![]()
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