#genji monogatari

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[storiamanga]

The Tale of Genji (あさきゆめみし 源氏物語) by Waki Yamato

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[susanoos-wife]

Yugao Chapter from Tale of Genji, by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka

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𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞 Genji Monogatari • 源氏物語 (1987) 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 Murasaki Shikibu 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 Group TAC 𝐝𝐢𝐫. Gisaburō Sugii 𝐜𝐡𝐫. 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 Seiichi Hayashi, Yasuhiro Nakura

𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦: 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴

[bukubook]

currently re-reading the beginning of genji monogatari, and all i can feel for genji is just... disgust.

[tonreihe]

“I commenced reworking Genji notes, and made my way through the first eight chapters, and found it utterly engrossing work, checking all the numbers, trying to run down elusive poems and poets—and some of them are pretty elusive, for I seem, without having been aware of the fact, to have drawn heavily upon inconspicuous commentaries. That is what scholarship is about: getting utterly lost in the pursuit of buried facts. They may tell you, they who do it, that it is the pursuit of truth; but the real point is getting utterly lost, and forgetting all about such illusory matters as the passage of time.”

—Edward G. Seidensticker, Genji Days (entry for November 18, 1974)

[tonreihe]

“How very arbitrary and irrational is the behavior of the god of Sumiyoshi. If the god so wants Genji to move to Akashi, then he should just come out and say so, instead of sending these storms and portents and jet streams, and in general subjecting him to the most horrid uncertainty.

“Yet a feeling of nearness to the dead and to the gods, whose chief requirement seems to be that one go to sleep from time to time, must have brought wonderful comfort to the troubled. Genji awakens from a dream of his father with feelings not of fear but of bliss, as of returning to childhood, and what he most wants is to go to sleep again (to approach the dead on their own terms). Might not the cheerful resignation that is among the more appealing of Japanese traits derive as much from Shinto (life with the gods) as from Buddhism?”

—Edward G. Seidensticker, Genji Days (entry for October 12, 1972)