Shikibu
Americannoun
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A few years later, the tutor to the empress’s rival Shoshi, Shikibu wrote the world’s first known novel, “The Tale of Genji,” about a talented and handsome nobleman hampered by his family’s unfortunate political position.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
Oh, and it was written by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2019
Oscar Wilde, to keep the conversation going, Jane Austen and Murasaki Shikibu.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2018
Right now, work is being done in West Los Angeles on the Shikibu chapter, which boasts intricately carved shadow puppets that are filmed and then animated.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2016
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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