Murasaki Shikibu Socks

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: “You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.”

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. And then just when your regrets are the strongest the wisteria comes into bloom, and it blooms on into the summer. There is nothing quite like it. Even the color is somehow companionable and inviting

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: The world knows it not; but to you, oh Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: “So much for their looks; but their characters - that is a much more difficult matter. We all have our quirks and no one is ever all bad. Then again, it is not possible for everyone to be all things all of the time: attractive, restrained, intelligent, tasteful and trustworthy. We are all different and it is often difficult to know on which aspect to dwell.”

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shapes which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the carver of idle toys.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: "Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful; but when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as such a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: It is in general the unexplored that attracts us,

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: But after all, life is full of uncertainties; perhaps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more.

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: “Autumn is no time to lie alone”

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: “It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.”

Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams

Description: Shizuku Murasaki holding a vacuum cleaner in a vibrant, stylized design.