For 10 points, name this Heian period lady-in-waiting who wrote The Tale of Genji.
Richard Browning made a 1985 translation of the diary and poetic memoirs of this author, who inspired a study of "poetics" titled The Bridge of Dreams. This author's pen name was taken from a character who is called "The Lady of the West Wing" and nicknamed for a "little wild plant" that sports a deep purple flower. This author, whose real name is unknown, was known as "Our (*) Lady of the Chronicles," and by a name that combined the rank of her father, the Minister of Ceremonials, with the name of a character she created who is loved by a prince whose childhood crush was Lady Fujitsubo. This rival of Sei Shonagon wrote of that prince around 1000 CE in what is sometimes called the world's first novel. For 10 points, name this Heian period lady-in-waiting who wrote The Tale of Genji.
Richard Browning made a 1985 translation of the diary and poetic memoirs of this author, who inspired a study of "poetics" titled The Bridge of Dreams.
Lady Murasaki Shikibu [prompt on "Shikibu"]