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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Shikibu, Murasaki ___ 973g-1025g ___ Japanese ___ n/a BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Few details of Shikibu's life are known, even her birth and death dates are uncertain. Shikibu's father was the governor of a province and a well known scholar. He let Shikibu learn Chinese classics, although girls were not usually allowed this privilege at the time. She married and had a daughter, but, when her husband died, in 1001, she entered court. For two years, while at court, she wrote a diary, which is considered historically important. She is more famous, however, for her novel, 'The Tale of Genji', which is considered one of the first ever written. Some argue that Shikibu is the world's first modern novelist. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1007-1010 ___ religious family domestic royalty WEB TEXT LINKS etext ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Diary of Lady Murasaki Court Ladies of Old Japan  May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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