Category: Murasaki Shikibu

  • Manuscripts from Tokugawa Art Museum

    Manuscripts from Tokugawa Art Museum

    While in Japan I was also able to visit the Tokugawa Art Museum, where a number of manuscripts were exhibited, here are two which are examples of kana art and paper decoration This is a fragment known as Rokujō-gire is from the poetry anthology Hachidai–wakashō and it traditionally attributed to Emperor Kōgon from the 14th…

  • Genji Emaki Monogatari

    Genji Emaki Monogatari

    For an Arts and Sciences competition category, For a Love, I decided to look in to the novel Genji Monogatari, seen as the worlds first novel by the female writer and poet, Murasaki Shibiku. I have chosen to base this off the 12th century manuscript of the work. This manuscript uses both gold and silver…