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Biography

Name: Murasaki Shikibu
Birth Date: c. 976
Death Date: c. 1031
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Place of Death: Kyoto, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Murasaki Shikibu
901 words, approx. 3 pages
Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 976-ca. 1031) was a Japanese writer of the late Heian period. Her "The Tale of Genji," the world's first psychological novel, is one of the longest and most distinguished masterpieces of Japanese literature. The exact dates of the...


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Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部 Murasaki Shikibu, c. 973–c. 1014 or c 1025) was a novelist, poet, and servant of the imperial court during the Heian period of Japan. Unsourced Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Murasaki Shikibu
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(born &circa; 978, Kyōto, Japan—died &circa; 1014, Kyōto) court lady who was the author of the Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), generally considered the greatest work of Japanese literature and thought to be the world's oldest...
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Murasaki Shikibu Summary
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(973?–1014?), Japanese writer. Murasaki Shikibu wrote the undisputed masterpiece of Japanese literature Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji, 1001?–1014?). This monumental prose work, interspersed with 795 short poems, takes place at the...
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Murasaki Shikibu
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(born &circa; 978, Kyōto, Japan) Japanese writer. Her real name is unknown, and the primary source of knowledge about her life is a diary she kept (1007–10). Her Tale of Genji (completed &circa; 1010) is a long and complex tale, concerned...
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Murasaki Shikibu Information
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Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部 c. 973–c. 1014 or 1025), or Lady Murasaki as she is sometimes known in English, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The...


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Publishers Weekly
Murasaki's 'Genji' Laboring for a Living Classic.(Viking publishing 'The Tale of Genji' by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler)
08/20/2001: 2,227 words, approx. 7 pages
"My role here was much more Dino DeLaurentiis than Max Perkins," Wendy Wolf says with a laugh. The Viking executive editor laughs a lot, which has come in handy during the seven years it has taken this particular project to come off the...
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The Economist (US)
The tale of Murasaki Shikibu.(the world's first modern novelist wrote 'The Tale of Genji' in Japan in 1001)(Brief Article)
12/25/1999: 910 words, approx. 3 pages
1001-19 The modern novel was born at the imperial court of Japan ALMOST exactly 1,000 years ago, a young woman in a small town in Japan began to write the story of an imagined prince who had just about everything--brains, looks,...
 


 

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