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Purple is murasaki in Japanese. From this poem the child is known as Murasaki; and hence the authoress derived the nickname by which she too is known.
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His wife.
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The song is addressed by a girl to a suspicious lover; Genji reverses the sense.
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‘Though I know not the place, yet when they told me this was the moor of Musashi, the thought flashed through my mind: “What else indeed could it be, since all its grass is purple-dyed?”’
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Fujitsubo. The fuji flower is also purple (murasaki) in colour.