c. 973–1014
Japanese author of The Tale of Genji, often called the first novel.
Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973–1014) endures among the great of East Asia. Japanese author of The Tale of Genji, often called the first novel.
Across the medieval age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.
Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
Submitted with honor.
From this house to yours
What the house has done here — the story told with dignity, the sources kept, the proof that endures — it does for any name you love. Free to begin, reviewed by human hands, honored the same.
Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.
