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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations and Periods of Japanese History
Chapter Titles of The Tale of Genji
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Discussions of Fiction
The Mother of Michitsuna
Kagerō Diary
Princess Senshi
Earlier Collected Poems of the Great Kamo Priestess
Minamoto no Tamenori
Preface to The Illustrated Three Treasures
Sei Shōnagon
The Pillow Book
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
The Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue
Sarashina Diary
Chapter 2 Genji Gossip (Plus a Bit of Good Advice)
A Nameless Notebook
The Lists
Forty-Eight Exemplars from Genji
A Key to Genji
Exemplars from Genji
[Untitled]
The Matches
The Feelings of People in Genji: A Match (Awa no Kuni Bunko text)
Genji: A Contest
The Feelings of People in Genji: A Match (Suzuki manuscript)
The Women in Ise and Genji: A Match in Twelve Rounds
Abutsu
The Nursemaid’s Letter
Chapter 3 Toward Canonization
Fujiwara no Shunzei and Kitamura Kigin
Senzaishū
Fujiwara no Shunzei
Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
Lord Shunzei’s Memorial in Japanese Script, Submitted in 1200
Sojaku
Explicating Murasaki
The Juntoku Retired Emperor
Diary of the Juntoku Retired Emperor
Fujiwara no Teika
Full Moon Diary
The GoToba Retired Emperor
Oral Transmissions of the GoToba Retired Emperor
Fujiwara no Nagatsuna
Conversations with the Kyōgoku Middle Counselor
Preface to Sino-Japanese Poems on The Tale of the Shining Genji
Chapter 4 Obsequies for Genji
Fujiwara no Tametsune
The Mirror of the Present
The Mother of Acting Middle Counselor Lord Saneki
Collected Poems of the Mother of Acting Middle Counselor Lord Saneki
Fujiwara no Takanobu
Collection of Fujiwara no Takanobu
Fujiwara no Muneie
New Imperial Collection of Poetry
Chōken
A Dedicatory Proclamation for The Tale of Genji
Seikaku
The Story of Obsequies for Genji
Chapter 5 The Tale of Genji Apocrypha
Motoori Norinaga
“Pillowed upon His Arm”
The “Sakurahito” Fragments
The Six “Hidden in Cloud” Chapters
The “Sumori” Fragments
“Dew on the Mountain Path”
Chapter 6 Medieval Commentary
Sōgi
Notes on the Rainy Night’s Discussion
Kaoku Gyokuei
Kaoku’s Gleanings
Gyokuei’s Collection
Kitamura Kigin
The Moonlit Lake Commentary
Chapter 7 Edo-Period Treatises
Kumazawa Banzan
Discursive Commentary on Genji
Andō Tameakira
Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu
Motoori Norinaga
The Tale of Genji: A Little Jeweled Comb
Matsudaira Sadanobu
From Blossoms to Moonlight
Hagiwara Hiromichi
A Critical Appraisal of Genji
Chapter 8 Modern Reception
Suematsu Kenchō
Introduction to Genji Monogatari: The Most Celebrated of the Classical Japanese Romances
Tsubouchi Shōyō
The Essence of the Novel
Sassa Seisetsu
Preface to A New Exegesis of The Tale of Genji
Yosano Akiko
“Upon Finishing A New Translation of The Tale of Genji”
Afterword to A New New Translation of The Tale of Genji
Virginia Woolf
“The Tale of Genji: The First Volume of Mr. Arthur Waley’s Translation of a Great Japanese Novel by the Lady Murasaki”
Masamune Hakuchō
“On Reading the Classics”
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
“On Translating The Tale of Genji into Modern Japanese”
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