"Almost before/I had the chance to notice/it was there,/the late-night moon swiftly/slipped behind the clouds." One of her poems was also chosen to be a part of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Just like Kinotomoh, Murasaki Shikibu, as one of the chosen thirty-six imperial poets, can read poems that can banish evil oni. "All things, grass and trees/Are ruled under our great Lord/No oni at all/Have a place in this nation/They may ever call their home." He banished the four oni by reading the following poem: 現代風に言うならば、彼女はすなわち「魔術の登場する小説を書くために実際に魔術を勉強する」系の作家であった。Īccording to chapter sixteen, titled "Nihonchoutekiji" in the "Taiheiki," a man named Kinotomoo was dispatched to slay the rebel Fujiwara-no-Chikata, who had four oni subordinates. 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. She shows great interest in stories and poems from other ages and regions, and will take any opportunity to read more.Ī well-behaved, honour student-esque type.Įxcellent upbringing, prudent and quiet by nature. Some of her favorite stories are "Taketorimonogatari" and "Isemonogatari." In fact, it's said that Murasaki Shikibu's characterizations were influenced by "Taketorimonogatari," while her wording, phrasing, and characters were heavily influenced by "Isemonogatari." She also took inspiration from Bai Juyi's poetry collections and biography, and it's said that the lines Hikaru Genji used to seduce women were influenced by the Chinese supernatural stories of the Tang dynasty, "You Xian Ku." Three poems, "Kokinshu," "Gosenshu," and "Shuuishu" stand among her very favorites, even among the many anthologies of poetry she read during her lifetime. She is punctual as well, and keeps a rather true to life diary. Cultured, sensible, and gentle, she loves to read and write poems and stories that touch on the vivid and elegant literary potential of love. 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. Increases party’s damage against Demonic enemies
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