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Murasaki Shikibu

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 3, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 17:43, 28 September 2023 (UTC)



Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. She became a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi at the Imperial court around about 1005, and continued to write during her service, adding scenes from court life to her work, reflected in The Diary of Lady Murasaki. After five or six years, she left court and retired with Shōshi to the Lake Biwa region. 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 became the subject of scholarly criticism. Her work was translated in the early in the 20th century; a six-volume English translation was completed in 1933. Scholars continue to recognize the importance of her work, which reflects Heian court society at its peak.
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 * Promoted: September 16, 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: Nov 3 is Culture Day in Japan. There was discussion on the talk page about recency concerns, but I am not concerned and I think this can run at TFA. This would be a TFA rerun from 2011.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 01:18, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. BorgQueen (talk) 01:22, 16 September 2023 (UTC)