Murasaki Shikibu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...is celebrated as the author of the romantic novel Genji-Monogatari tale of Genji, one of the first great works of fiction to be written in Japanese. It concerns the life of Prince Genji and his descendants and is a subtle and thorough...