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Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...
To date, no Murasaki-bot is programmed to recount ‘Tale of the Genji’ in English. The English-language text is available, however. It can be downloaded, in its entirety, from Oxford University.
McCormick’s work on the eleventh-century narrative The Tale of Genji has resulted in over a dozen publications in both English and Japanese. Her research was featured in two NHK televised specials ...
The author of this novel, the Lady Murasaki. who was born about 978 A.D. and became a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko in 1005, had written at least part of the tale by 1008.
Again, Genjishaku (Commentaries on the Genji), which was the first commentary on the Tale of Genji and was written at the end of the Heian Period, cites. 13 passages from Sakura-Hito and comments ...
THE TALE OF GENJI Murasaki Shikibu, , trans. from the Japanese by Royall Tyler. . Viking, $60 (1174pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03020-0 ...
The renowned 11th-century Japanese literary masterpiece is receiving great attention these days (see PW Interview, Aug. 20). Here it is paid elegant tribute in The Tale of Genji: Paintings and ...
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Most people who know “The Tale of Genji” think of it as a story about a man because the title character is a prince. Nao Kusuzaki is taking a different approach with her new ballet, inspired ...