973 - 1014
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, 'Lady Murasaki'; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) 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, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Murasaki Shikibu has received more than 1,154,867 page views. Her biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Murasaki Shikibu is the 146th most popular writer (up from 162nd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Japan (down from 15th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Writer.
Murasaki Shikibu is most famous for writing The Tale of Genji, which is considered the world's first novel.
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Among writers, Murasaki Shikibu ranks 146 out of 5,755. Before her are H. G. Wells, Kālidāsa, Mikhail Bulgakov, Aldous Huxley, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Emily Brontë. After her are Pindar, Elias Canetti, Ivo Andrić, Eugène Ionesco, Heinrich Böll, and Joseph Conrad.
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 140
400 - 420
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 141
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 142
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 143
1880 - 1918
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 144
1818 - 1848
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 145
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 146
517 BC - 437 BC
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 147
1905 - 1994
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 148
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 149
1909 - 1994
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 150
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 151
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 152
Among people born in 973, Murasaki Shikibu ranks 2. Before her is Al-Biruni. After her are Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and Al-Maʿarri. Among people deceased in 1014, Murasaki Shikibu ranks 1. After her are Sweyn Forkbeard, Samuel of Bulgaria, Sigrid the Haughty, Bagrat III of Georgia, Brian Boru, Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri, and Rajaraja I.
973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 1
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 2
973 - 1024
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 3
973 - 1057
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 4
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 1
960 - 1014
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 2
958 - 1014
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 3
968 - 1014
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 4
960 - 1014
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 5
941 - 1014
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 6
933 - 1014
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 7
947 - 1014
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 8
Among people born in Japan, Murasaki Shikibu ranks 16 out of 6,048. Before her are Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536). After her are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Emperor Jimmu (-711), and Yoko Ono (1933).
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 10
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
1542 - 1616
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 13
1960 - Present
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 14
1536 - 1598
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 15
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 16
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 17
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 18
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 19
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 20
711 BC - 585 BC
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 22
Among writers born in Japan, Murasaki Shikibu ranks 5. Before her are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949). After her are Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 1
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 2
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 3
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 4
973 - 1014
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 5
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 6
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 7
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 8
1935 - 2023
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 9
966 - 1025
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 10
1867 - 1916
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 12