Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu
She was born in Kyoto Japan in 795 A.D. and died in 1185 A.D.
Early Life
- Lady Murasaki was born into a lower part of the Fujiwara family.
- Her father and great grandfather were both poets.
- Lady Murasaki had a wonderful education and learned faster than her brother, making her father proud. However he would have been happier if she was a boy.
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Life in Kyoto, Japan
- Being born in Kyoto, Japan, into the lower side of the Fujiwara family, made life challenging for Murasaki.
- Kyoto is known as the "University Town" with 25 universities.
- Murasaki married at age 20.
- Murasaki had one child, a baby girl.
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Education
- Murasaki received a privately taught education at home from her family as a child/teenager.
- Later in life, she went to college in Japan to complete her education, with the intention of learning how to write a book.
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Accomplishments
- Murasaki wrote the world's first "novel" known as The Tale of Genji.
- Murasaki wrote three other books as well.
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Why Lady Murasaki is important
- Murasaki is and was important because she was the writer of the first world known novel.
- She is also important because what if by now nobody knew what a novel was?
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Interesting facts
- During the tenth century in Japan who ever the male is in the house is referred to as the "King of the House" or "Man of the House"
- Lady Murasaki actually wrote four books.(listed in slide six.)
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Famous Quotes
- “There are as many sorts of women as there are men.”- Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji.
- “Life is full of uncertainties, perhaps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more” -Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji.
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