Category:Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu 紫式部
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Profession	Author
Date of Birth	Between Tenroku (970) and Tengen (978)
Date of Death	After Kannin 3 (1019)
Sex	Female
Activity Period	990s - 1000

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• Associated Name/s: Fujiwara Takako | Lady Murasaki
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• Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of "The Tale of Genji", written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki Shikibu is a pen name; her real name is unknown, but she may have been Fujiwara Takako, who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.

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