Shikibu
Americannoun
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The rivals in question are Sei Shōnagon and Murasaki Shikibu.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
Widely considered the world’s first novel, Genji was composed in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a noblewoman and lady-in-waiting in the Heian Court.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
She became known as Lady Murasaki Shikibu, after her book’s main female character and Genji’s great love.
From New York Times • May 23, 2019
Oh, and it was written by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2019
It was in this reign that there appeared an eminent scholar, Yamazaki Ansai, who, with his scarcely less famous pupil, Takenouchi Shikibu, expounded the Chinese classics according to the interpretation of Chutsz.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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