...Thomas H. Rohlich Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs . By Richard Bowring . Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1982 . ix, 290 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index of First Lines, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK...

... for all the hoopla can be traced back to a remark recorded casually, but purposively, in a journal entry dated the first day of the eleventh month, 1008. The writer had this to say on that day a thousand years ago: Peering in [Kintô] said, “Excuse me, but would our Young Murasaki [ Waka-Murasaki...

... press that summer indicate that the yearly wages of a cook or housemaid ranged from £28 to £45. For someone in search of a Bloomsbury flat of one's own, £20 could keep you in modest, furnished comfort on Gordon Square for ten weeks. Richard Bowring . Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji...

... $20.00. The Heian period produced two of Japan's best prose writers Murasaki Shikubu and Sei Shonagon. Arthur Waley introduced them to the West in the twenties and thirties with his almost complete translation of The Tale of Genji, and his selection from Shonagon's Pillow Boo\, comprising about a quarter...

... . Komashaku Kimi . 1991 . Murasaki Shikibu no meseeji . Tokyo : Asahi shimbunsha . Lebra Takie Sugiyama . 1976 . Japanese Patterns of Behavior . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press . Lutz Catherine . 1988 . Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll...

..., and poet in Chinese verse. Sakaki writes, “Although Arakida Reijo and Ema Saikô wrote as intelligently and knowledgeably as Murasaki, they have not made their way into the literary canon as she has. I hope to help undo the conventional link among the indigenously Japanese, the feminine, and the natural...

... for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1990. xi, 170 pp. Most of us will know of the Great Kamo Priestess Senshi {Daisai'in Senshi), if at all, through the diary of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu nikki), where she and her salon are referred to as the only serious cultural competition faced...

... by cutting, and therefore 'improves What about his "The Tale of Genji. By Murasaki Shikibu, Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Vol. I: xix, 521 pp.; Vol. translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. New York: II: ix, 568 pp. Woodcut Illustrations. $25.00. 299 3°° MASAO MIYOSHI own work? Does his version retain the texture...

... in Japanese Studies, Number 5. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1990. xi, 170 pp. Most of us will know of the Great Kamo Priestess Senshi {Daisai'in Senshi), if at all, through the diary of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu nikki), where she and her salon are referred...

... of Teika's school). Aileen Gatten, in "Three Problems in the Text of 'Ukifune observes that the distinction between realism and art was made as early as the sixteenth century, when Sanjonishi Kin'eda defended Murasaki Shikibu's reversal of Kaoru's and Niou's ages by comparing the reversal to Chuang Tzu (p...

... hypothesizes that Akiko identified with Genji's author Murasaki Shikibu and various heroines of Genji to such an extent that it colored her first translation of that work; that she had a fantasy of her husband Tekkan as her own Genji which persisted throughout her entire marriage; and that in the end she...

... hypothesizes that Akiko identified with Genji's author Murasaki Shikibu and various heroines of Genji to such an extent that it colored her first translation of that work; that she had a fantasy of her husband Tekkan as her own Genji which persisted throughout her entire marriage; and that in the end she...

... no difficulty with, say, Murasaki's prose. Sometimes his translations are so free as to resemble variations on original themes, but they are always of use, and 364 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY only the very superior reader will be above them. At other times, however, we may feel that Igarashi rather overdid a good...

... (Seidensticker, p. 83), that she consciously excluded material irrelevant to her theme and was to that extent a literary artist, were not the apology merely the conventional one for obtrusion into a male sphere. Even Murasaki disclaims competence in treating of matters of state. It is more likely...

... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES knowledge and the character's knowledge: "In essence, Oigimi has inherited the memory of Murasaki's tragedy in the 'Wakana chapters without knowing about it" (p. 121). Another disappointment awaits the reader in Andrew Pekarik's "Rivals in Love," which begins with an examination...

... in the text, translations of three kambun records describing the birth of Prince Atsuhira, and eight maps locating the principals involved in the ceremonies surrounding the birth. These maps are a valuable aid to visualizing the physical point from which Murasaki witnessed the events. Bowring's book also...

... characters and readers ascribe to such structures and hence themselves? The introduction and first chapter deftly lay out the Heian context and methodological framework. Chapters 2 and 3 examine Genji's mansions. In Sarra's analysis, Murasaki is defined by the Nijōin (and Genji's construction of her...

... approach to this question of collaboration by two students of The Tale of Genji. One of the two, Kumazawa Banzan (1619 91), was a neo-Confucian scholar of samurai background. He somehow agreed to work on this 54-volume novel by Lady Murasaki with the other, Nakanoin Michishige (1631 1710), Banzan's friend...

... character or line from the Japanese or Chinese classics transformed and transvalued on the noh stage will understand the inspiration behind Janet Goff s thoroughgoing study of the use of Murasaki Shikibu's famous narrative as a source for noh. As Goff points out, the nature of The Tale of Genji's influence...

... siècle) . [The Golden Age of Women's Prose in Japan (10th–11th Centuries)] . By Jacqueline Pigeot . Paris : Les Belles Lettres , 2017 . 176 pp. ISBN: 9782251446400 (paper, also available as e-book). The Tale of Genji . By Murasaki Shikibu , trans. Dennis Washburn . New York : W.W. Norton...