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Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition

By: Lady Murasaki Shikibu,Sean Michael Wilson

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Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition

By: Lady Murasaki Shikibu,Sean Michael Wilson

Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court. Tale of Genji, the world's oldest known novel, tells the story of Prince Genji and his adventures in life, love, and power within the halls of the Chrysanthemum Royal Court. Handsome, romantic, and talented in the art of seduction, Prince Genji skillfully navigates the court and all its intrigues—always in search of love and often finding it. His story is the oldest and most famous tale of romance in the annals of Japanese literature and, as a representation of passion and romance, remains beyond compare. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Genji's story comes alive as readers experience: His birth in the royal court to Kiritsubo, who comes to represent Genji's ideal of female beauty and grace. His lifelong obsession with Fujitsubo, one of the emperor's lovers and mother to Genji's son Ryozen. His romantic life with Murasaki, Fujitsubo's beautiful niece and Genji's favored lover. Though wary of his motivations at first, she becomes the true love of Genji's life. Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote this story some 500 years before Shakespeare put pen to paper. It is acknowledged to be the world's very first novel, and English-speaking readers can now experience the story in manga style for the first time. Superbly illustrated and retold, this visual take on Japan's most important classic offers an intimate look at the social mores and intrigues in the Heian-era court of medieval Japan, and Prince Genji's representation as the ideal male courtier.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462922848

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9781462922840

Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition

By: Lady Murasaki Shikibu,Sean Michael Wilson

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The Tale of Genji

By: Lady Murasaki,Murasaki Shikibu,Arthur Waley

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The Tale of Genji

By: Lady Murasaki,Murasaki Shikibu,Arthur Waley

The classic novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the exploits of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend.

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212

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Courier Corporation

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0486414159

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9780486414157

Genji Monogatari

By: Lady Murasaki Shikibu

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Genji Monogatari

By: Lady Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel.

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324

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Simon and Schuster

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1625584083

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9781625584083

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

By: Murasaki Shikibu,Izumi Shikibu,Lady Sarashina

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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

By: Murasaki Shikibu,Izumi Shikibu,Lady Sarashina

The Heian period (794-1186AD) of Japanese history - the setting of The Tale of Genji - was an era of unsurpassed refinement in art and literature, in which women played a unique role. Dominated by the mighty Fujiwara clan, the Japanese court was the bright centre of a world in which rare and exquisite taste in poetry, art, calligraphy, dress, incense, colour, even the selection of gifts, was cultivated to an amazing degree. This gossamer veil of beauty masked another reality of political intrigue and passionate rivalries which intensified the heady atmosphere of a court in which flirtations and love affairs were endemic. Cultivated and artistic women held a privileged position at court, and they perfected the literary genre of diaries that combined subtlety, strength and starkness in their depictions of life in this enclosed and dream-like world. These diaries are among the jewels of Japanese literature and three are presented here - The Sarashina Diary, the Diary of Izumi Shikibu and the Diary of Murasaki Shikibu - with an introduction by the poet Amy Lowell, an early admirer of Japanese literature.

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Routledge

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1136213864

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9781136213861

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

By: Murasaki Shikibu,Izumi Shikibu,Lady Sarashina

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By: Murasaki Shikibu,Izumi Shikibu,Lady Sarashina

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1136213937

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9781136213939

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

By: Lady Sarashina

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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

By: Lady Sarashina

Born at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunting self-portrait. Born in 1008, Lady Sarashina was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Penguin

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0140442820

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9780140442823

The Tale of Genji

By: Lady Murasaki

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The Tale of Genji

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One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance offers a vast tapestry of court life, rich in poetry and subtle social, psychological observations.

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0486111652

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9780486111650

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

By: Lady Sarashina

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Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

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