Murasaki (disambiguation)
# Murasaki (disambiguation)

Murasaki is the main character in The Tale of Genji.

Murasaki may also refer to:

## People

* Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji
* Murasaki Yamada, Japanese feminist essayist, manga artist, and poet
* Murasaki Fujima, Japanese actress

## Fictional characters

* Lady Murasaki, a character from Tom Harris's Hannibal Rising
* Murasaki Kimidori, a character from the anime and manga series Dr. Slump
* Ninja Murasaki, a member of the Red Ribbon Army in the anime and manga series Dragon Ball
* Murasaki Kuhōin, a character from the light novel, anime and manga series Kure-nai
* Akane Kurashiki, who is nicknamed "Murasaki" in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

## Books

* The Murasaki Shikibu Diary, diary written by Murasaki Shikibu
* Murasaki (novel), a 1992 science fiction novel by several authors, edited by Robert Silverberg

## Colours and dyes

* Fujimurasaki, nisemurasaki, kokimurasaki, murasaki, umemurasaki and murasakitobi, names for a number of shades of purple considered to be part of the traditional colors of Japan
* Kokimurasaki, the outerwear color of 1st rank aristocrats in the forbidden colors system of the Japanese Imperial Court from the 10th–11th century until the Meiji period (1867–1911)
* The Japanese word for Lithospermum erythrorhizon (purple gromwell) or the dye or made from its root

## Other uses

* Murasaki (crater), a crater on planet Mercury, named after Murasaki Shikibu
* A station on the Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line
* Murasaki 312, a fictional space phenomenon in Star Trek: The Original Series.
