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	The Tale of Genji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally accepted that the tale was finished in its present form by 1021, when the author of the Sarashina Nikki wrote a famous diary entry about her joy at acquiring a complete copy of the tale.
		Genji was the second son of a certain ancient emperor and a low-ranking concubine.
		Genji is not punished officially, but flees to the rural Harima province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji (3083 words)

	Tale of Murasaki - the Tale of Genji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Genji begins an affair with the Rokujô lady (who is seven years older than Genji, and widow of the deceased crown prince) while at the same time nursing a hidden passion for his stepmother Fujitsubo.
		Murasaki has the spring pavilion, Genji's adopted daughter Akikonomu the autumn, the orange blossom lady is installed in the summer quarter, and the Akashi lady in the winter.
		Genji (perhaps remembering his own transgression with his stepmother) has never allowed his son contact with Murasaki, and the young man is transfixed by her beauty.
	www.lizadalby.com /taleofgenjipage.htm (3119 words)

	The Tale of Genji
		The Tale of Genji is one of the earliest written during the Heian period about 1000 years ago, and the most famous pieces of art literature from Japan.
		It was against this background that Murasaki began writing The Tale of Genji in which she looks closely at the relationships of men and women and the unfortunate circumstances in which women find themselves placed in.
		In the mean time, Genji lusts after a princess because he cannot resist the beauty of the music she plays on the zither (koto).
	pages.cthome.net /chegment/kgenji.htm (1208 words)

	Royall Tyler - Translating The Tale of Genji
		The Tale of Genji is not the first extended work of prose fiction in Japanese, to say nothing of Latin or Greek, but is surely the earliest such work from anywhere in the world that lives on even today as a widely revered masterpiece.
		Genji had chosen only quiet, collected men to pour their wine, men unlikely ever to yield to mirth, but even so the Commander of the Right, the Lord of Civil Affairs, and the others who so earnestly kept their cups filled got a fine tongue-lashing.
		Although the issue of marriage is prominent in the tale, the narrative has no stable word or locution for "marriage'' or even for "husband.'' Another recurring preoccupation for some of the characters is the wish to leave the world and become a monk or a nun.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/tylerlecture.html (6023 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tale of Genji : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio): Books: Murasaki ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor.
		Genji felt quite unwell, and besides, it was now raining a little, a cold mountain wind had set in to blow, and the pool beneath the waterfall had risen until the roar was louder than before.
		Lady Murasaki constructs in Genji her ideal man and lover seen from a woman's eye who combines in himself two naturally conflicting character trades: He is a good guy, loyal, thoughtful and dependable and he is an exiting, adventurous lover who acts decisively and sometimes stretches or disregards his society's rules of conduct.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014243714X?v=glance (3191 words)

	Intersections: Gender Relations in The Tale of Genji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Such sentiments from a woman in her position are not seen in The Tale of Genji, but in the tale as no doubt in real life an established wife could certainly be jealous of a late-comer, even a lesser one.
		Genji is already her lover when she first appears in the book (chapter 4, 'The Twilight Beauty'), and she clearly expects him sooner or later to acknowledge their relationship publicly: that is, to marry her.
		Genji (who for reasons explained in the narrative is determined to see the thing through) therefore has no choice but to proceed without her consent.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue7/tyler.html (5139 words)

	Opera japonica/Libretto of the Tale of Genji by Colin Graham
		Genji visits both Fujitsubo, with whom he is passionately in love and who is carrying his child, and Rokujo, his first love whom he deserted for Fujitsubo.
		Genji's conflicting emotions begin to tell on him and he is warned about the possible results of the pain he causes others.
		Genji is summoned to the bedside of Aoi who has fallen ill, weakened from childbirth and distraught by her unrequited love for her husband.
	www.operajaponica.org /libretti/taleofgenjilib.htm (2939 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
		In chapters 2 and 9, a Chunagon is one of Genji's favorites among the women attending his wife, Lady Aoi, and he sleeps with her in Chapter 12.
		After his coldness makes her flee, she is briefly the mistress of Genji, till slain by the jealous spirit of the Lady of Rokujo, a tale told in Chapter 4.
		Genji gives him a glimpse of Tamakazura's beauty by releasing fireflies in her room at night, and this gives him the name used for him in the novel, which means "firefly."
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/genjicha.htm (3049 words)

	Dolls in the Tale of Genji
		The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) was written around 1000-1025 by a woman known to history as Lady Murasaki or Murasaki Shibiku.
		For most of the novel, Prince Genji's relationships with the women in his life are depicted; around chapter 41, he dies, and the loves of his last wife's son, Kaoru, become the focus.
		Genji prays in a verse but, as he is standing on the seashore looking so beautiful, the calm sea turns into an appalling storm which rages for days, and which is the King of the Sea's attempt to claim Genji as a lover.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/genji.htm (2709 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/The Tale of Genji
		For political reasons, Genji is relegated to commoner status and begins a career as an imperial officer.The tale concentrates on his romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time.
		Genji and his wife Lady Aoi reconcile and she gives birth to a son, but dies soon after.
		Genji is sorrowful, but finds consolation in Lady Murasaki, whom he finds and weds in Kitayama.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji (2630 words)

	Fine Arts, UBC Library. Tale of Genji Display
		It is a story of Genji, son of an emperor, from his youth through his rise in rank and influence.
		Such types of paintings illustrated tales that concentrated on narratives about life at court and decorated sutra scrolls, depicting the Pure Land, the realm of eternal bliss in twelfth-century Buddhism.
		This follows that pictorial representation of The Tale of Genji a monogatari about Court life, which was written by a woman, and aimed at evoking aesthetic scenes of yugen, should be executed in the onnae style and based on the tsukurie technique.
	www.library.ubc.ca /finearts/genji.html (921 words)

	UCLA:Teaching about Japan - Yugao (literature-classical era)
		This is a chapter very early in the tale when the central male protagonist Genji, nicknamed the “Shining One” is still a very young man and just beginning to embark on his various adventures and liaisons with different women.
		Landmarks of World Literature Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji is a quick way to contextualize the entire 54 chapters of the tale as well as give a good introduction to the historical, social, and culture context of the period.
		The focus is on Genji and Genji’s life and the women are not portrayed with much psychological complexity.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/japan/classical/yugao-lesson.htm (1058 words)

	The Tale of Genji.
		The Tale of Genji is generally agreed to be the central work in all of Japanese literature.
		Arrayed in various forms, The Tale is presented through a narrator with scenic backgrounds and original frames of the Genji scroll.
		As the study of The Tale of Genji has totally occupied the lives of hundreds of scholars over many centuries, some might question some of the details, and others might prefer an entirely different multi-media approach; but on balance the program offers us a much enhanced understanding of culture and court-life.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/reviews/taleof.htm (879 words)

	Murasaki Shikibu: Japan's First Novelist
		The Tale of Genji offers an unparalleled glimpse into the spirit and grandeur of the Heian era of Japan, which extended from 794 AD to 1191, between the Nara and Kamakura eras.
		Prince Genji, the hero of this sparkling chronicle of court life, is a complex personality and a peerless lover.
		The Tale of Genji was composed sometime between 1001 and 1010.
	www.picpal.com /genji.html (702 words)

	The Tale of Genji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Tale of Genji centers on the life and loves of a handsome son, Hikaru Genji, born to an Emperor during the Heian Period.
		At one point, Genji's adultery with a lady of the opposite faction results in his being exiled for a period to Suma After a short time, he returns to the capital, where he rises further in status and position being appointed to high official ranking reaching the apogee of his career.
		This chapter is not found in The Tale of Genji.
	www.iz2.or.jp /english/what (466 words)

	Genji links (Watson)
		Genji and Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike.
		The first attempt to translate GENJI into English was the partial translation published in 1882 by Baron Suyematsu (Kencho Suematsu as we would now write his name).
		Genealogical chart for the Tale of Genji from Richard Bowring's Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji.
	www.meijigakuin.ac.jp /~watson/genji/genji.html (1659 words)

	The Tale of Genji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The key to understanding Prince Genji is to withhold moral judgment of his many--by modern standards--immoral relationships, and to see his life as a tragic search for an enduring love to fill the void he has known since the early death of his young mother.
		Although there dramatized versions of the The Tale of Genji are available, the animated version conveys Murasaki's characters and their world as mythic and the stuff of cultural and intercultural dreams.
		Because of Genji's affairs and the film's sophisticated dream-like images and symbolism, this unit is suggested for mature students.
	www.aems.uiuc.edu /HTML/ChalkGuides/Genji.html (477 words)

	Heian Era Literature -- A Bibliography (a part of the UCLA Teaching about Japan website)
		Her reading of the spirit possession scenes of both Yûgao and Aoi (Genji's principle wife whose section we did not read), found on pages 45-51, is especially noteworthy as is the entire section on Rokujô (pp.
		The Tale of Genji was the first non-western work to be included in the Modern Language Association series on the teaching of the great "masterpieces" of literature.
		The CD is rounded out by a picture scroll of the tale, providing a sense of the material culture of the period, and a dictionary which has an introduction of the characters, Genji's genealogy, and a chronology of Genji's life.
	www.international.ucla.edu /eas/japan/lessons/heian-bibliography.htm (2602 words)

	The Tale of Genji
		The Tale of Genji, the supreme masterpiece of Japanese literature and one of the central monuments of Japanese civilization, is a psychological novel of immense subtlety and complexity written during the opening years of the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman of the Japanese court.
		Genji scholarship is one of the most fertile fields of Japanese studies both in Japan and abroad.
		Tahara, Mildred, (tr.) Tales of Yamato A Tenth-Century Poem Tale.
	www.umass.edu /complit/aclanet/Japan497.htm (1144 words)

	The Tale of Genji
		Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu Shrine, tutelary shrine of the Minamoto (Genji) clan.
		Written 1,000 years ago, The Tale of Genji has 54 chapters and over 1,000 pages of text in its English translation.
		Genji Monogatari is a good way to start.
	www.taleofgenji.org (164 words)

	Artzia: The Tale of Genji
		Genji, a man of passionate impulses and a lover of beauty, is the favorite son of the Emperor, though his position at court is not entirely stable.
		Book Description: The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court.
		The Tale of Genji depicts a unique society of ultrarefined and elegant aristocrats whose indispensable accomplishments were skill in poetry, music, calligraphy, and courtship.
	www.artzia.com /Shop/Books/N/0394735307 (565 words)

	Genji monogatari - The Tale of Genji
		The first two-thirds describe the youth and maturity of Genji, the ‘shining prince’ of the Heian court.
		Genji is the ideal Heian courtier - the son of an emperor, an accomplished musician, poet, painter, dancer and kickball player; but his greatest accomplishment is the art of love, the art most prized and cultivated in Heian courtly society.
		The Tale of Genji is thus a record of many love affairs.
	home.planet.nl /~d.v.ooijen/sashimisen/genji.html (230 words)

	Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In early 11th-century Japan, Kiritsubo, a woman of the lower ranks of the court, gave birth to a son whom she named Genji.
		While not the entirety of the book, nor the ultimate focus of Murasaki's writing, a strong theme of Genji is the notion of love, lust, and the interaction of members of the opposite sex.
		In the mean time, Genji lusts after a princess because he cannot resist the beauty of the music she plays on the zither.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/genji/summary.html (636 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tale of Genji: Books: Murasaki Shikibu,Edward G. Seidensticker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Tale of Genji boasts rights as the first novel ever written, but the road getting here has been rough.
		So much has been said about Genji Monogatari: some say it is the world's first novel; others, the greatest novel ever written; others again an incomparable source of information on Heian Japan.
		Genji himself is a cypher: yet for sure Murasaki loved him, or someone like him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394735307?v=glance (1762 words)

	Demetrius at The Australian National University: Item 1885/42042 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		But it is impossible to contain ''The Tale of Genji'' in the word ''novel.'' The princes and consorts and monks and maids that Murasaki Shikibu described may have been imaginary, but their preoccupations and the trappings of their privileged lives were taken directly from her daily life.
		''Genji,'' for centuries of Japanese readers as well as decades of Western ones, is Heian Japan, a lost world as strange to the citizens of modern Japan as modern Japan is to most Westerners...
		Anyone who dares attempt a translation of ''Genji'' must be as much a cultural interpreter as a linguist.
	hdl.handle.net /1885/42042 (321 words)

	UNESCO - Tale of Genji - Part 1 - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		UNESCO - Tale of Genji - Part 1 - 1
		In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others.
		The world assumed that with this powerful support he would one day be named crown prince; but the new child was far more beautiful.
	webworld.unesco.org /genji/en/part_1/1-1.shtml (166 words)

	languagehat.com: THE TALE OF GENJI.
		I don't know what the deal is, since the book is still in print and less than thirty years old, but if you have a hankering to read a thousand-page classic online, here's your chance, if you can finish it before it gets yanked.
		The internet is large and generous.) And I found a nice page of Genji links originally compiled for a class.
		I was surprised to find that each of the separate chapters is available as either an XHTML document or a downloadable zipped text file (each in Shift-JIS encoding), including ruby annotations for the more difficult kanji.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001842.php (622 words)

	The Tale of Genji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		This webpage was created with the intent to familiarize audiences with Genji's Rokujô-in estate and the characters who reside there.
		The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu as translated by Royall Tyler.
		The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji, by Norma Field, p.111-125.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/asian377/studentspring99/asian377c (129 words)

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