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        1. Experience the fantasy world of "The Tale of Genji" interwoven with Murasaki Shikibu in Japan's only Shinden-zukuri garden!
        2. One of the finest writers of the period was Lady Murasaki Shikibu.
        3. Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist who lived during the Heian period and wrote The Tale of Genji, considered the world's first novel.
        4. Its female author, Murasaki Shikibu, was a diarist, a renowned poet, and, as a tutor to the young empress, the ultimate palace insider; her monumental work of.
        5. The Tale of Genji is the product of an aristocratic culture that flourished in Japan in the eleventh century at the height of the.

          6. Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist who lived during the Heian period and wrote The Tale of Genji, considered the world's first novel....

          Murasaki Shikibu

          Japanese novelist and poet (c. 973 – c.

          1014)

          "Lady Murasaki" redirects here. For the character, see Murasaki no Ue.

          Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, 'Lady Murasaki'; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.

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          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 (藤原香子), who was mentioned in a 1007 court diary as an imperial lady-in-waiting.

          Heian women were traditionally excluded from learning Chinese, the written language of government, but Murasaki, raised in her erudite father's household, showed a precocious aptitude for the Chinese classics and managed to acquire fluency.

          She married in her mid-to-late twenties and gave birth to a daughter, Daini no