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Murasaki Shikibu

Index Murasaki Shikibu

was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. [1]

126 relations: Akazome Emon, Arthur Waley, Bai Juyi, Benizuri-e, Byōbu, Callicarpa japonica, Calligraphy, Canon (fiction), Chinese characters, Chinese classics, Chinese literature, Cholera, Classical Chinese, Concubinage, Confucius, Daigaku-ryō, Daini no Sanmi, Donald Keene, Donald Shively, Dowry, Echigo Province, Echizen Province, Edo period, Edwin O. Reischauer, Eiga Monogatari, Elizabethan era, Emakimono, Emperor Go-Ichijō, Emperor Go-Reizei, Emperor Ichijō, Emperor of Japan, Empress Shōshi, Folding screen, Fujiwara clan, Fujiwara no Kanesuke, Fujiwara no Kintō, Fujiwara no Korechika, Fujiwara no Michikane, Fujiwara no Michinaga, Fujiwara no Michitaka, Fujiwara no Tametoki, Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwara no Teishi, Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Fusuma, Genji Monogatari Emaki, Gotoh Museum, Heian Palace, Heian period, Heian-kyō, ..., Helen Craig McCullough, Hikaru Genji, Hiroshige, Hiroshige III, Ishiyama-dera, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Austen, Japanese language, Japanese literature, Japanese missions to Imperial China, Jūnihitoe, Kana, Kanō Tan'yū, Ki no Tsurayuki, Kichō, Kikuchi Yōsai, Kimono, Kumazawa Banzan, Kusazōshi, Lacquerware, Lady-in-waiting, Lake Biwa, List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings), Liza Dalby, Man'yōgana, Manga, Marcel Proust, Mii-dera, Mono no aware, Monogatari, Motoori Norinaga, Narration, Nihon Shoki, Nijūichidaishū, Novel, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, Parody, Patrilineality, Poetic diary, Protagonist, Richard Bowring, Salon (gathering), Samurai, Satire, Sei Shōnagon, Shōji, Shikibu-shō, Shin Kokin Wakashū, Sutra, Syllabary, The Diary of Lady Murasaki, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji Museum, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The Tales of Ise, Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, Tokugawa Art Museum, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Torii Kiyonaga, Tosa Mitsunobu, Tosa Mitsuoki, Tosa school, Uji, Ukiyo-e, Utamaro, Vernacular, Waka (poetry), Wet nurse, William George Aston, William Shakespeare, Wisteria, Woodblock printing, Woodcut, Yamato Monogatari, Yoshitoshi. Expand index (76 more) »

Akazome Emon

was a Japanese waka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period.

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Arthur Waley

Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.

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Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i;; 772–846) was a renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official.

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Benizuri-e

are a type of "primitive" ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints.

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Byōbu

are Japanese folding screens made from several joined panels, bearing decorative painting and calligraphy, used to separate interiors and enclose private spaces, among other uses.

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Callicarpa japonica

Callicarpa japonica, commonly known as East Asian beautyberry or Japanese beautyberry, is a plant in the mint family.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

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Canon (fiction)

In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in the fictional universe of that story.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese classics

Chinese classic texts or canonical texts refers to the Chinese texts which originated before the imperial unification by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, particularly the "Four Books and Five Classics" of the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves a customary abridgment of the "Thirteen Classics".

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Chinese literature

The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature vernacular fiction novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship in which the couple are not or cannot be married.

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Confucius

Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

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Daigaku-ryō

was the former Imperial university of Japan, founded at the end of the 7th century.

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Daini no Sanmi

was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

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Donald Keene

Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 18, 1922) is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.

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Donald Shively

Donald Howard Shively (May 11, 1921 – August 23, 2005) was an American academic, historian, Japanologist, author and professor emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Dowry

A dowry is a transfer of parental property, gifts or money at the marriage of a daughter.

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Echigo Province

was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan.

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Echizen Province

was an old province of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui Prefecture.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Edwin O. Reischauer

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American educator and professor at Harvard University.

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Eiga Monogatari

is a Japanese monogatari, or epic, which relates events in the life of courtier Fujiwara no Michinaga.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Emakimono

, often simply called, is a horizontal, illustrated narrative form created during the 11th to 16th centuries in Japan.

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Emperor Go-Ichijō

was the 68th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor Go-Reizei

was the 70th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor Ichijō

was the 66th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor of Japan

The Emperor of Japan is the head of the Imperial Family and the head of state of Japan.

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Empress Shōshi

, also known as, the eldest daughter of Fujiwara no Michinaga, was Empress of Japan from c. 1000 to c. 1011.

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Folding screen

A folding screen is a type of free-standing furniture.

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Fujiwara clan

, descending from the Nakatomi clan and through them Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto, was a powerful family of regents in Japan.

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Fujiwara no Kanesuke

Fujiwara no Kanesuke (877—933, Japanese: 藤原 兼輔, also 中納言兼輔, Chūnagon Kanesuke and 堤中納言 Tsutsumi Chūnagon) was a middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman.

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Fujiwara no Kintō

, also known as Shijō-dainagon, was a Japanese poet, admired by his contemporaries "...

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Fujiwara no Korechika

, the second son of Michitaka, was a kugyo (Japanese noble) of the Heian period.

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Fujiwara no Michikane

Fujiwara no Michikane (藤原 道兼; 961 – June 13, 995), the son of Kaneie, was a Japanese nobleman and monk of the Heian period.

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Fujiwara no Michinaga

was a Japanese statesman.

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Fujiwara no Michitaka

, the first son of Kaneie, was a Kugyō (Japanese noble) of the Heian period.

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Fujiwara no Tametoki

(died 1029?) was a Japanese aristocrat, author of Japanese waka and Chinese poetry of some repute, and father of Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki", author of The Tale of Genji, born ca. 970 or 973).

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Fujiwara no Teika

, better-known as Fujiwara no Teika"Sadaie" and "Teika" are both possible readings of 定家; "...there is the further problem, the rendition of the name in romanized form.

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Fujiwara no Teishi

was an empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Ichijō.

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Fujiwara no Yoshifusa

, also known as Somedono no Daijin or Shirakawa-dono, was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.

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Fusuma

In Japanese architecture, are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors.

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Genji Monogatari Emaki

  The, also called The Tale of Genji Scroll, is a famous illustrated hand scroll of the Japanese literature classic The Tale of Genji is from the 12th century, perhaps.

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Gotoh Museum

The is a private museum in the Kaminoge district of Setagaya on the southwest periphery of Tokyo.

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Heian Palace

The or was the original imperial palace of Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto), the capital of Japan, from 794 to 1227.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Heian-kyō

Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto.

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Helen Craig McCullough

Helen Craig McCullough (February 17, 1918 – April 6, 1998) was an American academic, translator and Japanologist.

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Hikaru Genji

is the protagonist of Murasaki Shikibu's important Heian-era Japanese novel The Tale of Genji.

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Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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Hiroshige III

was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who was a student of Utagawa Hiroshige.

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Ishiyama-dera

is a Shingon temple in Ōtsu in Japan's Shiga Prefecture.

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Izumi Shikibu

was a mid Heian period Japanese poet.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Japanese literature

Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese.

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Japanese missions to Imperial China

The Japanese missions to Imperial China were diplomatic embassies which were intermittently sent to the Chinese court.

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Jūnihitoe

The is an extremely elegant and highly complex kimono that was only worn by court-ladies in Japan.

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Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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Kanō Tan'yū

was one of the foremost Japanese painters of the Kanō school.

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Ki no Tsurayuki

was a Japanese author, poet and courtier of the Heian period.

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Kichō

A is a portable multi-paneled silk partition supported by a two-rod T-pole.

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Kikuchi Yōsai

, also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara Ryōhei, was a Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures.

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Kimono

The is a traditional Japanese garment.

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Kumazawa Banzan

was an adherent of a branch of Neo-Confucianism called Wang Yangming Studies (Japanese: Yōmeigaku: 陽明学), who lived during the early Edo period.

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Kusazōshi

is a term that covers various genres of popular woodblock-printed illustrated literature during the Japanese Edo period (1600–1868) and early Meiji period.

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Lacquerware

Lacquerware are objects decoratively covered with lacquer.

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Lady-in-waiting

A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman.

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Lake Biwa

is the largest freshwater lake in Japan, located in Shiga Prefecture (west-central Honshu), northeast of the former capital city of Kyoto.

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List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)

The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897.

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Liza Dalby

Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture.

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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Mii-dera

, formally called, is a Buddhist temple in Japan located at the foot of Mount Hiei, in the city of Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture.

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Mono no aware

, literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

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Monogatari

is a literary form in traditional Japanese literature, an extended prose narrative tale comparable to the epic.

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Motoori Norinaga

was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Nijūichidaishū

The are Japan's twenty one imperial collections (chokusenshū) of ''waka'' poetry written by noblemen.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through his or her father's lineage.

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Poetic diary

or is a Japanese literary genre, dating back to Ki no Tsurayuki's Tosa Nikki, compiled in roughly 935.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Richard Bowring

Professor Richard John Bowring PhD, Litt.D (born 6 February 1947) is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Downing College.

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Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host.

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Sei Shōnagon

, (c. 966–1017/1025) was a Japanese author, poet and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period.

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Shōji

In traditional Japanese architecture, a shōji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a lattice of wood or bamboo.

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Shikibu-shō

The was one of eight ministries of the Japanese imperial court.

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Shin Kokin Wakashū

The, also known in abbreviated form as the or even conversationally as the Shin Kokin, is the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled by the Japanese court, beginning with the Kokin Wakashū circa 905 and ending with the Shinshokukokin Wakashū circa 1439.

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Sutra

A sutra (Sanskrit: IAST: sūtra; Pali: sutta) is a religious discourse (teaching) in text form originating from the spiritual traditions of India, particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

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Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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The Diary of Lady Murasaki

The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記 Murasaki Shikibu Nikki) is the title of a collection of diary fragments written by the 11th-century Japanese Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer Murasaki Shikibu.

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The Pillow Book

is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian Japan.

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The Tale of Genji

is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.

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The Tale of Genji Museum

The Tale of Genji Museum is in Uji, Kyoto, Japan.

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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

is a 10th-century Japanese monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing Japanese folklore.

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The Tales of Ise

is a Japanese uta monogatari, or collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period.

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Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry

The are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability.

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Tokugawa Art Museum

The is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan.

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Tokugawa Iemitsu

Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川 家光 August 12, 1604 – June 8, 1651) was the third shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty.

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Torii Kiyonaga

This article is about the ukiyo-e artist; for samurai named Kiyonaga, see Naito Kiyonaga and Koriki Kiyonaga. Torii Kiyonaga (鳥居 清長; 1752 – June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school.

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Tosa Mitsunobu

was a Japanese painter, the founder of the Tosa school of Japanese painting.

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Tosa Mitsuoki

was a Japanese painter.

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Tosa school

of Japanese painting was founded in the early Muromachi period (14th–15th centuries),,p.988 and was devoted to yamato-e, paintings specializing in subject matter and techniques derived from ancient Japanese art, as opposed to schools influenced by Chinese art, notably the Kanō school (狩野派).

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Uji

is a city on the southern outskirts of the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿; – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist.

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Vernacular

A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.

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Waka (poetry)

is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.

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Wet nurse

A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child.

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William George Aston

William George Aston CMG (9 April 1841 – 22 November 1911) was a British diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wisteria

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), that includes ten species of woody climbing vines that are native to China, Korea, and Japan and as an introduced species to the Eastern United States.

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Woodblock printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.

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Woodcut

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.

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Yamato Monogatari

is a collection of 173 short stories which give details about life in the Imperial court in the 9th and 10th centuries.

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Yoshitoshi

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu

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