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Close-up on purple-reddish blooms and blue flowers of the Murasaki flower or purple gromwell. Murasaki no Ue's name remains a pseudonym, as due to court manners of the author's time (the Heian period, 794–1185), it was considered unacceptably familiar and vulgar to freely address people by either their personal or family names; within the novel, the character herself, too, is unnamed, as ...
The Third Princess, a character from The Tale of Genji (ukiyo-e by Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766). The characters of The Tale of Genji do not possess birth names. Instead they are assigned sobriquets derived from poetic exchanges (e.g. Murasaki takes her name from a poem by Genji), from the particular court positions they occupy (in the Tyler translation, characters are often referred to by such ...
Translations into modern Japanese have made it easier to read though changed some meaning, and has given names to the characters, usually the traditional names used by academics. This gives rise to anachronisms ; for instance, Genji's first wife is named Aoi because she is known as the lady of the Aoi chapter, in which she dies.
He had two wives in the legal sense during his life; he married Lady Aoi (Aoi no Ue､葵の上) in his youth, and much later Onna san no Miya (女三の宮) (meaning "The Third Princess", called so in Japanese, and known as Nyōsan in the Arthur Waley translation.) Lady Aoi died after she bore a son to Genji.
Murasaki Kimidori, a character from the anime and manga series Dr. Slump; Ninja Murasaki, a member of the Red Ribbon Army in the anime and manga series Dragon Ball; Murasaki Kuhōin, a character from the light novel, anime and manga series Kure-nai; Akane Kurashiki, who is nicknamed "Murasaki" in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Aoi no Ue is also the title of a Noh play about her, translated as Lady of the Court, or in the modern version by Yukio Mishima, The Lady Aoi. Aoi no Ue is the Senior Minister of State family's daughter and Hikaru Genji's formal wife. She was seriously ill and possessed by a phantom which was caused by Hikaru Genji's first lover Rokujō.
The name Murasaki was most probably given to her at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the "Young Murasaki"—an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji—which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author. [23]
Murasaki no Ue was the daughter of the Imperial Prince Hyobukyo no Miya and the niece of Empress Consort Fujitsubo. Lord Genji first met her when she was 12 years old. Eventually, he married her, and she came to be known as Murasaki no Ue (Lady Murasaki). Aoi no ue Aoi no Ue was the daughter of the Minister of the Left and the first wife of ...