The sensitive and modest daughter
of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her
acitve imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close
friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's
amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust into the
life of a kind of eleventh-century Japanese celebrity. She is compelled by a
charismatic regent to accept a position at court regaling the empress with her
stories. At court, Lady Murasaki becomes caught in a vortex of high politics and
sexual intrigue, which begins to reflect itself in her stories.
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