APPENDIX I
| A.D. | 978 (?) | Murasaki born. |
| A.D. | 994 (?) | Marries Fujiwara no Nobutaka. |
| A.D. | 1001 | Nobutaka dies. |
| A.D. | 1005 (?) | She becomes lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, then a girl of sixteen. |
| A.D. | 1007–1010 | Keeps a diary, which survives. |
| A.D. | 1008 | Book I of the Tale of Genji read to the Emperor. |
| A.D. | 1025 | Murasaki still at Court. |
| A.D. | 1031 | Murasaki no longer at Court and perhaps dead. |
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