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Murasaki refers to both the heroine of the Genji Monogatari, and the book's author, Murasaki Shikibu. In both cases the name is a pseudonym, and the real names are unknown. In the court manners of the time, it was considered unacceptably familiar and vulgar, to freely address people by their personal name, or even by their clan's name. As a result, the real name of the author is lost, and she was called Murasaki Shikibu: Murasaki after the heroine she invented; Shikibu after her father's official rank. The author Murasaki was an aristocrat, the daughter of a provincial governor who probably belonged to a minor branch of the mighty Fujiwara clan. She served as a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Shoshi, and was a literary contemporary and rival of Sei Shōnagon. When Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, she followed the customs of her class and time, so that most of the characters in the novel are never identified by name, but rather by either their rank and title, rank and title of their male relatives, or after the name of their habitation. Thus in the case of Murasaki, the lady in the novel, the author often calls her "The Lady of the West Wing". This "Lady of the West Wing" is commonly named Murasaki in commentaries and translations. Today, this serves to make the novel more easily comprehensible to those unfamiliar with Heian era court manners and titles, but we know that the author's contemporaries already referred to this character by this name - and nicknamed the author after her.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of murasaki in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
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The numerical value of murasaki in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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