Return with Shōshi to the Imperial Palace
· Heian Palace (Kokiden), Kyoto, Japan
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Murasaki traveled with Empress Shōshi’s household when Shōshi returned to the Imperial Palace after childbirth ceremonies, then spent the night in the Kokiden corridor. The diary places this return on the seventeenth day of the Frost month during the 1008 childbirth sequence; conversion to a modern calendar date is not supplied by the source.
