The Diary of Lady Murasaki
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Literary work · diary · Murasaki Shikibu · c. 1010
The diary Murasaki Shikibu kept of her life at the court while in service to the imperial consort Shōshi (988–1074), daughter of Fujiwara no Michinaga; it records among much else the celebrations of 1008 for the birth of Shōshi’s son, the imperial heir, on Michinaga’s lake.1 Illustrated in the thirteenth century as the Murasaki Shikibu nikki emaki (Gotō scroll) and its companion scrolls. Mason 2005, pp. 107, 112. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.