Shikibu

Izumi Shikibu is as unlike Murasaki Shikibu as could well happen.

Izumi Shikibu returns to become lady-in-waiting at the Court.

I have already shown Murasaki Shikibu's beautiful taste in dress, but indeed it is in everything.

Murasaki Shikibu records the astounding pitch to which it had reached in a passage in her diary.

But Izumi Shikibu was too fascinating and too petulant to nurse her disappointment in a chaste seclusion.