Author: Murasaki Shikibu
born perhaps 978
died perhaps 1031
Japanese: 紫式部
The Tale of Genji
among the first examples of the novel as a literary form of Japanese writer Baroness Murasaki Shikibu greatly influenced later fiction.
People in English sometimes knew Murasaki Shikibu, a lady, a poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court during the period of Heian. People best knew this earliest and most famous author between 1000 and 1008 in human history. Some scholars postulated Fujiwara Takako as her unknown, real, actual, given name. Her diary states that after a character, court nicknamed her "Murasaki," purple wisteria blossom."
"Shikibu" refers to position of her father in the bureau of ceremony.
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