Murasaki Shikibu (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
In addition to The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu is credited with two other works: her diary, Murasaki Shikibu nikki (eleventh century), and a collection of her poetry, Murasaki Shikibu-shū (eleventh century). Both of these works are translated and annotated in full in Richard Bowring’s Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs (1982); a partial translation of the diary may be found in Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi’s Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1920), excerpted in Donald Keene’s Anthology of...
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