title: Murasaki (disambiguation)
text: # 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.
  