Fifty-days ceremony at the palace
· Heian Palace, Kyoto, Japan
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Murasaki returned to the palace in the morning for the fifty-days ceremony of Shōshi’s younger son, an imperial household event she describes in her diary. The passage follows the diary’s entry headed "Third day of First month [1010]"; the source does not provide a modern-calendar conversion or a more precise year-month date.
