biography
pronunciation:
[murasahkee]
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| female
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| lived:
| (978–c.1031)
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| biography:
| Lady of the court, and writer, born in Kyoto, C Japan. She wrote the world's earliest surviving long novel, also considered the greatest Japanese literary work, Genji Monogatari or The Tale of Genji (first translated into English by Arthur Waley, 6 vols, 1925–33). |
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