7075865 Six Poets (Rokkasen), 1795-1806 (woodcut) by Utamaro, Kitagawa (1753-1806); 25.1x38.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Print shows Murasaki Shikibu (English: Lady Murasaki) (c. 973 - c. 1014 or 1025) with five elderly men, all wise men or poets. Murasaki was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara Takako, who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.).