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The tale of Murasaki Shikibu.(the world's first modern novelist wrote 'The Tale of Genji' in Japan in 1001)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/25/1999; 700+ words
; ...modern novel, and its writer, Murasaki Shikibu, not just as a pioneer but as...class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters...power. Little is certain about Murasaki Shikibu. The name itself is a pen...
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Igual que ahora.(La novela de Genji, de la autora Murasaki Shikibu)(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 12/30/2005; 421 words
; La novela de Genji. Esplendor. Murasaki Shikibu. Destino. 872 pgs. PRIMERA versin en espaol del gran clsico...de Genji, hijodel emperador, pero no heredero del trono, Shikibu retrata la apasionante y exquisita visa de la alta sociedad...
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TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'THE TALE OF GENJI' BY MURASAKI SHIKIBU
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/1/2006; ; 329 words
; The Tale of Genji (c 1010), by the Japanese noblewoman traditionally known as 'Lady Murasaki', is sometimes designated the world's first novel; perhaps it could be called the world's first bonkbuster, dealing as...
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She had the last laugh: the true story of Murasaki Shikibu as told by Lady Dainagon.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; In the end, I knew that she had the last laugh. How was this possible? He had everything on his side. He was the most powerful man in the country. He was Prime Minister, rich, virile, supremely self-confident. He managed to arrange that his daughter became Empress, his gransons Emperors. His
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Lady Murasaki's novel idea: she wasn't waiting around.(Herstory)
Magazine article from: New Moon; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...name of the woman who wrote The Tale of the Genji. Instead, people call her by her nickname, Lady Murasaki, or Murasaki Shikibu. Lady Murasaki was born during the Heian era, a time of peace. Her father raised her, which was unusual. In Japan...
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All you need to know about the books you meant to read; THE TALE OF GENJI (1010? - 1020?) by the Lady Murasaki Shikikbu
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/28/1996; ; 661 words
; ...daughter. Genji's child-wife Murasaki feels displaced. She dies slowly...without chairs and in paper houses. Murasaki's world is entirely alien and...What they thought of it then: Murasaki Shikibu was famed in her lifetime. Court...
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Timeless Lady
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...mountain cherry," wrote Lady Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji...Shining Prince and the mysterious Murasaki Shikibu who created him kept plucking at her imagination. The Tale of Murasaki is her creative response to that...
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A Life Imagined
Newspaper article from: International Examiner; 4/30/2001; ; 687 words
; ...Reviewed by Wingate Packard In The Tale of Murasaki, Liza Dalby has composed a persuasive fictional...known about Genji's creator, known to us as Murasaki Shikibu, and Dalby's adroit use of Murasaki's own poetry from The Tale of Genji in this...
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Authors of invention: the amazing men and women who changed the way writers write and readers read.(Review)
Magazine article from: Book; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...innovations that have affected writing and reading. Before Murasaki Shikibu, there was no such thing as a novel. Before Jan...language, writing or the plow." Novel Authors MURASAKI SHIKIBU AND MIGUEL DE CERVANTES AUTHORS OF THE WORLD'S...
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After 1,000 years, the spirit of 'Genji' lives on in Kyoto A tale of love and loss in the imperial court captivates Japanese
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...celebrating the millennial anniversary of Murasaki Shikibu's episodic story of love and...imperial court. Even better, Lady Murasaki set much of the amorous action...featuring looks popular in Lady Murasaki's time. In Kyoto, the festivities...
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Murasaki Shikibu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Murasaki Shikibu 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...
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Murasaki, Shikibu
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Murasaki, Shikibu (978–1014) Japanese diarist and novelist. Murasaki is best known for her novel, The Tale of Genji . Dating from c. 1000, it is one of the first works of fiction written in Japanese. See also Japanese literature
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Japanese literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...write in Japanese. Much Heian literature of note was written by aristocratic women, foremost among whom was Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki). Her Genji monogatari [tale of Genji] (early 11th cent.) is ranked with the world's greatest novels...
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Motoori Norinaga
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...x2014;e.g. Shinkokinshū (The New Collection of Poetry Ancient and Modern, compiled c. 1205) and Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji . He took the latter to be portraying the sensitivity of a good life—what he called...
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Arthur Waley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...important works include his translations of Chinese poetry and of the Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji (1925-33) by Murasaki Shikibu . Among his other works are The No Plays of Japan (1921), The Poetry and Career of Li Po (1959) and The Secret...
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