Murasaki Shikibu
970–
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
writer · poet · lady-in-waiting
Born in Heian-kyō
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Murasaki Shikibu:
- Avicenna (980–1037)
- Ferdowsi (940–1020)
- William the Conqueror (1028–1087)
- Al-Biruni (973–1048)
- Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)
- Leif Erikson (972–1020)
- Urban II (1035–1099)
- Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
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