Shikibu Murasaki Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Baroness Murasaki was a Japanese writer and court figure. She wrote the celebrated romantic novel Genji-monogatari (The Tale of Genji, completed a.d. 1003), one of the first great Japanese works of fiction, and considered to be one of the world's earliest novels. Genji traces the lives of the fictional Prince Genji, his wives and their children, ...
Shikibu Murasaki is not her real name, which is unknown. "Shikibu" was a government title that her father held at one point, while "Murasaki" was the name given to one of the characters in her work, "The Tale of Genji".
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Her written work, "Genji Monogatari" ("The Tale of Genji") is widely considered to be the world's first novel.