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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu , or Shijo , was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a descriptive name; her personal name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara no Kaoruko (藤原香…
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culture · Japanese novelist and poet (c. 973 – c. 1014) · lady-in-waiting · novelist · poet · writer · diarist · philosopher · film screenwriter · also Murasaki Shikibu, Lady Murasaki, Shikibu
Born 0978 · Died 1014 · Q81731
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2024· 1 entry
Nippon: “Murasaki Shikibu and Fujiwara no Michinaga”: Literature and Power in the Heian Court
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2018· 1 entry
Nippon: Murasaki Shikibu: A Thousand Years of Anonymous Fame
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2016· 1 entry
Bustle: The Tale of Murasaki Shikibu: The First Novelist
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2015· 1 entry
ジャパンタイムズ: ‘Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji’ unlocks Japan’s legendary 1,000-page novel
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2008· 2 entries
ジャパンタイムズ: Murasaki Shikibu glimpsed behind the screens of time
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With poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera (where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed), and women dressing in traditional 12-layer Heian court jūnihitoe
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1933· 1 entry
Reviewers compared Genji to Austen, Proust, and Shakespeare
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1014· 1 entry
Died 1014.
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0978· 1 entry
Born 0978.
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