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Genji sends gifts from the capital when his daughter with the Lady Akashi reaches 50 days ... rather than the 50 of the Heian period. But given the millennium that has passed since Murasaki ...

At the height of the splendor of the Heian Period (794-1185), lady-in-waiting to the Imperial Court, Murasaki Shikibu, wrote "The Tale of Genji," the story of Imperial officer Hikaru Genji falling ...