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Murasaki Shikibu

Read through the most famous quotes from Murasaki Shikibu




Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#darkness #dreams #reality #dreams

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#effort #learning #rewards #art

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#decay #remembrance #death

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#art

Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#love #love

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?


— Murasaki Shikibu


#leaving #love #death

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.


— Murasaki Shikibu


#body #may #moves #soul #stay






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The album is considered the earliest of its kind and consists of 54 paintings by Tosa Mitsunobu and 54 Murasaki Shikibuets of calligraphy on shikishi paper in five colors written by master calligraphers. " Prince Genji recognizes in each of his lovers the inner beauty of the woman and the fragility of life which according to Keene makes him heroic. In her early to mid-thirties Murasaki Shikibu became a lady-in-waiting nyōbō at court most likely because of her reputation as an author.

It is uncertain when Murasaki Shikibu began to write The Tale of Genji but it was probably while Murasaki Shikibu was married or shortly after Murasaki Shikibu was widowed. Murasaki wrote The Diary of Lady Murasaki a volume of poetry and The Tale of Genji. Since the 13th century her works have been illustrated by Japanese artists and well-known ukiyo-e woodblock masters.

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