who is murasaki shikibu?
A poet
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki wrote "The Diary of Lady Murasaki", a volume of poetry, and "The Tale of Genji".
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Murasaki Shikibu [SEP] Introduction
She continued to write during her service, adding scenes from court life to her work. After five or six years, she left court and retired with Shōshi to the Lake Biwa region. Scholars differ on the year of her death; although most agree on 1014, others have suggested she was alive in 1031. Murasaki wrote "The Diary of Lady Murasaki", a volume of poetry, and "The Tale of Genji". Within a decade of its completion, "Genji" was distributed throughout the provinces; within a century it was recognized as a classic of Japanese literature and had become a subject of scholarly criticism.