Harper / Shirane Reading The Tale of Genji

Sources from the First Millennium
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53720-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A textual history of the reception, canonization, and popularization of Japan’s premier literary text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harper, Thomas

Shirane, Haruo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Abbreviations
Chapter Titles of The Tale of Genji
Introduction
1. Early Discussions of Fiction
Kagero Diary, by The Mother of Michitsuna
Earlier Collected Poems of the Great Kamo Priestess, by Princess Senshi
Preface to The Illustrated Three Treasures, by Minamoto no Tamenori
The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, by Murasaki Shikibu
Sarashina Diary, by The Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue
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
The Nursemaid's Letter, by Abutsu
3. Toward Canonization
Senzaishu, by Fujiwara no Shunzei and Kitamura Kigin
Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds, by Fujiwara no Shunzei
"Lord Shunzei's Memorial in Japanese Script, Submitted in 1200", by Fujiwara no Shunzei
Explicating Murasaki, by Sojaku
Diary of the Juntoku Retired Emperor, by The Juntoku Retired Emperor
Full Moon Diary, by Fujiwara no Teika
Oral Transmissions of the GoToba Retired Emperor, by The GoToba Retired Emperor
Conversations with the Kyogoku Middle Counselor, by Fujiwara no Nagatsuna
Preface to Sino-Japanese Poems on The Tale of the Shining Genji
4. Obsequies for Genji
The Mirror of the Present, by Fujiwara no Tametsune
Collected Poems of the Mother of Acting Middle Counselor Lord Saneki, by The Mother of Acting Middle Counselor Lord Saneki
Collection of Fujiwara no Takanobu, by Fujiwara no Takanobu
New Imperial Collection of Poetry, by Fujiwara no Muneie
"A Dedicatory Proclamation for The Tale of Genji", by Choken
The Story of Obsequies for Genji, by Seikaku
5. The Tale of Genji Apocrypha
"Pillowed upon His Arm", by Motoori Norinaga
The "Sakurahito" Fragments
The Six "Hidden in Cloud" Chapters
The "Sumori" Fragments
"Dew on the Mountain Path"
6. Medieval Commentary
"Notes on the Rainy Night's Discussion", by Sogi
Kaoku's Gleanings, by Kaoku Gyokuei
Gyokuei's Collection, by Kaoku Gyokuei
The Moonlit Lake Commentary, by Kitamura Kigin
7. Edo-Period Treatises
Discursive Commentary on Genji, by Kumazawa Banzan
Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu, by Ando Tameakira
The Tale of Genji: A Little Jeweled Comb, by Motoori Norinaga
From Blossoms to Moonlight, by Matsudaira Sadanobu
A Critical Appraisal of Genji, by Hagiwara Hiromichi
8. Modern Reception
Introduction to Genji Monogatari: The Most Celebrated of the Classical Japanese Romances, by Suematsu Kencho
The Essence of the Novel, by Tsubouchi Shoyo
Preface to A New Exegesis of The Tale of Genji, by Sassa Seisetsu
"Upon Finishing Shin'yaku Genji monogatari", by Yosano Akiko
Afterword to Shin-shin'yaku Genji monogatari, by Yosano Akiko
"The Tale of Genji: The First Volume of Mr. Arthur Waley's Translation of a Great Japanese Novel by the Lady Murasaki", by Virginia Woolf
"On Reading the Classics", by Masamune Hakucho
"On Translating The Tale of Genji into Modern Japanese" Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Harper is retired from the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies at Leiden University. He is the translator of In Praise of Shadows and other essays by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, and the author of a number of scholarly articles on the reception of The Tale of Genji.

Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, is the author and editor of numerous books on Japanese literature, including, most recently, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts; Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production; Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600; Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600–1900; Classical Japanese: A Grammar; Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and A Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji.