life of Murasaki Shikibu/ Fujiwara no Kaoruko

By UWUchan
  • 975

    Murasaki Shikibu/ Fujiwara no Kaoruko is born

    Murasaki Shikibu/ Fujiwara no Kaoruko is born into the northern fujiwara clan
  • Period: 975 to 1014

    life of Murasaki Shikibu/ Fujiwara no Kaoruko

  • 998

    Murasaki Shikibu gets married

    Murasaki Shikibu gets married to her father's friend Fujiwara no Nobutaka who was a much older second cousin.
    He descended from the same branch of the Fujiwara clan and he was a court functionary and bureaucrat at the Ministry of Ceremonials.
  • 999

    Murasaki Shikibu starts writing the tale of genji

    Murasaki Shikibu starts her book the tale of genji which is known as the first classic novel.
    According to her legend Murasaki visited Ishiyama-dera at Lake Biwa, where it is said she was inspired to write The Tale of Genji on a soothing August night while looking at the bright glistening moon.
    Some also believe she may have been commissioned to write the story and may have known or heard about an exiled courtier in a similar position to her story's protagonist, Genji.
  • 999

    her daughter was born

    Murasaki gave birth to Kenshi/Kataiko
  • Period: 999 to 1009

    my presumed time that she spent writing "the tale of genji"

  • 1001

    her husband Fujiwara no Nobutaka dies of cholera

    Fujiwara no Nobutaka dies during the cholera epidemic, it is believed that she started writing the tale of genji before his death.
  • 1003

    Murasaki Shikibu becomes a lady in waiting for the empress

    In her early to mid to late-thirties Murasaki Shikibu became a nyōbō aka a lady in waiting for Michinaga.
    it is believed that Michinaga wanted to have Murasaki at court to educate his daughter Shōshi.
    it is also believed that Michinaga wanted Murasaki because of her reputation as an author and poet.
  • 1011

    Murasaki Shikibu retires from being a lady in waiting

    When Emperor Ichijō died in 1011 Shōshi retired from the Imperial Palace to live in a Fujiwara mansion in Biwa and it is commonly believed that she accompanied by Murasaki.
  • 1014

    Murasaki Shikibu dies

    it is speculated that Murasaki died around this time but some believe she died around 1025