Murasaki Shikibu

[ moo-rah-sah-kee shee-kee-boo ]

noun

1. Lady, 978?–1031?, Japanese poet and novelist.

Murasaki Shikibu

/ ˌmʊərɑːˈsɑːkiː ˈʃiːkiːˌbuː /

noun

1. Murasaki Shikibu11th-century11th-centuryFJapaneseWRITING: writer 11th-century Japanese court lady, author of The Tale of Genji, perhaps the world's first novel

Example Sentences

Izumi Shikibu is as unlike Murasaki Shikibu as could well happen.

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I have already shown Murasaki Shikibu's beautiful taste in dress, but indeed it is in everything.

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Murasaki Shikibu records the astounding pitch to which it had reached in a passage in her diary.

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We know no more of Murasaki Shikibu except that no shade of scandal ever tinged her name.

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Murasaki Shikibu was the daughter of Fujiwara Tametoki, a scion of a junior branch of the famous family.

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