Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642129305
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Genji has reached the heights of worldly glory, but a new young wife begins to drive his life out of order. Living in an estate with his many wives, Genji wields the highest power in the country, but even so he still continues to search for his ideal woman—so he welcomes a young princess as his wife. Did he truly want this woman so badly, he would even hurt his most beloved Lady Murasaki to have her? Read this manga to have a good understanding of The Tale of Genji!
The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn, Volume 6
Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642129305
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Genji has reached the heights of worldly glory, but a new young wife begins to drive his life out of order. Living in an estate with his many wives, Genji wields the highest power in the country, but even so he still continues to search for his ideal woman—so he welcomes a young princess as his wife. Did he truly want this woman so badly, he would even hurt his most beloved Lady Murasaki to have her? Read this manga to have a good understanding of The Tale of Genji!
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642129305
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Genji has reached the heights of worldly glory, but a new young wife begins to drive his life out of order. Living in an estate with his many wives, Genji wields the highest power in the country, but even so he still continues to search for his ideal woman—so he welcomes a young princess as his wife. Did he truly want this woman so badly, he would even hurt his most beloved Lady Murasaki to have her? Read this manga to have a good understanding of The Tale of Genji!
The Tale of Genji
Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642128961
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Prince Genji adopts the daughter of his departed lover, but her beauty causes him to lose his good sense. His welcoming this girl, raising her to be a lady and arranging the best marriage for her was supposed to have been done out of parental affection. But heart swept away by her charm, he crosses a line as her adoptive father...
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642128961
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Prince Genji adopts the daughter of his departed lover, but her beauty causes him to lose his good sense. His welcoming this girl, raising her to be a lady and arranging the best marriage for her was supposed to have been done out of parental affection. But heart swept away by her charm, he crosses a line as her adoptive father...
The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn, Volume 4
Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642128953
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Prince Genji mourns a lost lover, while unbeknownst to him, his dear wife's heart is in disarray. Having overcome the punishment for his affair, Genji returns to the political sphere. As he spends his time intimately with his beloved wife Murasaki, he thinks back on a woman he loved when he was young, as well as the lover and child he left in Akashi. Meanwhile, the time for his separation with his eternal love comes ever closer...
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642128953
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Prince Genji mourns a lost lover, while unbeknownst to him, his dear wife's heart is in disarray. Having overcome the punishment for his affair, Genji returns to the political sphere. As he spends his time intimately with his beloved wife Murasaki, he thinks back on a woman he loved when he was young, as well as the lover and child he left in Akashi. Meanwhile, the time for his separation with his eternal love comes ever closer...
The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn, Volume 2
Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642126667
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
His loves are countless, but the love Prince Genji seeks is never there. Genji betrays his father and the result of his affair with with Fujitsubo is the conception of their child. Then, his own wife becomes pregnant. Genji sees this coming child as a saving grace, but when one of his lovers finds out, she brings torment to his wife ...
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642126667
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
His loves are countless, but the love Prince Genji seeks is never there. Genji betrays his father and the result of his affair with with Fujitsubo is the conception of their child. Then, his own wife becomes pregnant. Genji sees this coming child as a saving grace, but when one of his lovers finds out, she brings torment to his wife ...
The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn, Volume 3
Author: Waki Yamato
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642126675
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
One of Prince Genji's lovers is the daughter of his political rival as well as the consort of Genji's own brother. Dangerous love sometimes brings tragedy. Though Genji has now married Lady Murasaki, who's grown up to look just like Princess Fujitsubo, his search for the ideal woman continues. He continues to see Oborozukiyo, his brother's wife, in an ongoing affair, but eventually, they're discovered. Suspected of plotting treachery, Genji is ousted from the political world ...
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642126675
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
One of Prince Genji's lovers is the daughter of his political rival as well as the consort of Genji's own brother. Dangerous love sometimes brings tragedy. Though Genji has now married Lady Murasaki, who's grown up to look just like Princess Fujitsubo, his search for the ideal woman continues. He continues to see Oborozukiyo, his brother's wife, in an ongoing affair, but eventually, they're discovered. Suspected of plotting treachery, Genji is ousted from the political world ...
The Tale of Genji
Author: Melissa McCormick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691172684
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Written in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the world's first novel. Melissa McCormick provides a unique companion to Murasaki's tale that combines discussions of all fifty-four of its chapters with paintings and calligraphy from the Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums, the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist. In this book, the album's colorful painting and calligraphy leaves are fully reproduced for the first time, followed by McCormick's insightful essays that analyze the Genji story and the album's unique combinations of word and image. This stunning compendium also includes English translations and Japanese transcriptions of the album's calligraphy, enabling a holistic experience of the work for readers today. In an introduction to the volume, McCormick tells the fascinating stories of the individuals who created the Genji Album in the sixteenth century, from the famous court painter who executed the paintings and the aristocrats who brushed the calligraphy to the work's warrior patrons and the poet-scholars who acted as their intermediaries. Beautifully illustrated, this book serves as an invaluable guide for readers interested in The Tale of Genji, Japanese literature, and the captivating visual world of Japan's most celebrated work of fiction.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691172684
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Written in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the world's first novel. Melissa McCormick provides a unique companion to Murasaki's tale that combines discussions of all fifty-four of its chapters with paintings and calligraphy from the Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums, the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist. In this book, the album's colorful painting and calligraphy leaves are fully reproduced for the first time, followed by McCormick's insightful essays that analyze the Genji story and the album's unique combinations of word and image. This stunning compendium also includes English translations and Japanese transcriptions of the album's calligraphy, enabling a holistic experience of the work for readers today. In an introduction to the volume, McCormick tells the fascinating stories of the individuals who created the Genji Album in the sixteenth century, from the famous court painter who executed the paintings and the aristocrats who brushed the calligraphy to the work's warrior patrons and the poet-scholars who acted as their intermediaries. Beautifully illustrated, this book serves as an invaluable guide for readers interested in The Tale of Genji, Japanese literature, and the captivating visual world of Japan's most celebrated work of fiction.
Reading The Tale of Genji
Author: Thomas Harper
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537204
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. This sourcebook is the most comprehensive record of the reception of The Tale of Genji to date. It presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its first millennium, almost all of which are translated into English for the first time. An introduction prefaces each set of documents, situating them within the tradition of Japanese literature and cultural history. These texts provide a fascinating glimpse into Japanese views of literature, poetry, imperial politics, and the place of art and women in society. Selections include an imagined conversation among court ladies gossiping about their favorite characters and scenes in Genji; learned exegetical commentary; a vigorous debate over the morality of Genji; and an impassioned defense of Genji's ability to enhance Japan's standing among the twentieth century's community of nations. Taken together, these documents reflect Japan's fraught history with vernacular texts, particularly those written by women.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537204
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. This sourcebook is the most comprehensive record of the reception of The Tale of Genji to date. It presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its first millennium, almost all of which are translated into English for the first time. An introduction prefaces each set of documents, situating them within the tradition of Japanese literature and cultural history. These texts provide a fascinating glimpse into Japanese views of literature, poetry, imperial politics, and the place of art and women in society. Selections include an imagined conversation among court ladies gossiping about their favorite characters and scenes in Genji; learned exegetical commentary; a vigorous debate over the morality of Genji; and an impassioned defense of Genji's ability to enhance Japan's standing among the twentieth century's community of nations. Taken together, these documents reflect Japan's fraught history with vernacular texts, particularly those written by women.
Naomi
Author: Junichiro Tanizaki
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375724745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375724745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics
Author: Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as early modern fictional classics and nonfiction works of the seventeenth century. Building strong links between these writings and the critical traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, this volume shows the vital role of the classics in the shaping of Asian history and in the development of the humanities at large. Wm. Theodore de Bary focuses on texts that have survived for centuries, if not millennia, through avid questioning and contestation. Recognized as perennial reflections on life and society, these works represent diverse historical periods and cultures and include the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Xunxi, the Lotus Sutra, Tang poetry, the Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, and the writings of Chikamatsu and Kaibara Ekken. Contributors explain the core and most commonly understood aspects of these works and how they operate within their traditions. They trace their reach and reinvention throughout history and their ongoing relevance in modern life. With fresh interpretations of familiar readings, these essays inspire renewed appreciation and examination. In the case of some classics open to multiple interpretations, de Bary chooses two complementary essays from different contributors. Expanding on debates concerning the challenges of teaching classics in the twenty-first century, several pieces speak to the value of Asia in the core curriculum. Indispensable for early scholarship on Asia and the evolution of global civilization, Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics helps one master the major texts of human thought.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as early modern fictional classics and nonfiction works of the seventeenth century. Building strong links between these writings and the critical traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, this volume shows the vital role of the classics in the shaping of Asian history and in the development of the humanities at large. Wm. Theodore de Bary focuses on texts that have survived for centuries, if not millennia, through avid questioning and contestation. Recognized as perennial reflections on life and society, these works represent diverse historical periods and cultures and include the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Xunxi, the Lotus Sutra, Tang poetry, the Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, and the writings of Chikamatsu and Kaibara Ekken. Contributors explain the core and most commonly understood aspects of these works and how they operate within their traditions. They trace their reach and reinvention throughout history and their ongoing relevance in modern life. With fresh interpretations of familiar readings, these essays inspire renewed appreciation and examination. In the case of some classics open to multiple interpretations, de Bary chooses two complementary essays from different contributors. Expanding on debates concerning the challenges of teaching classics in the twenty-first century, several pieces speak to the value of Asia in the core curriculum. Indispensable for early scholarship on Asia and the evolution of global civilization, Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics helps one master the major texts of human thought.
The Disaster of the Third Princess
Author: Royall Tyler
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten 'Uji chapters') relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the essays suggest fresh, thought-provoking perspectives on Japan¿s greatest literary classic.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten 'Uji chapters') relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the essays suggest fresh, thought-provoking perspectives on Japan¿s greatest literary classic.