Catalog of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 5-June 16, 2019. "The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated" : March 5-June 16, 2019, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion (2018, Princeton University Press) by Melissa McCormick (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) That’s because this book focuses narrowly on 108 paintings ...

Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at Harvard University, earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan (1990) and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2000).

The word "novel" quite literally means "new." As in a "new story" or a "new way of writing." And while it's true that popular novels as we know them are fairly "new," the modern novel as an art form ...

Widely recognized as the world's first novel, as well as one of its best, the 11th-century tale of Genji the shining prince has been painstakingly and tenderly translated by Tyler, a retired professor ...

At the turn of the 11th century, a Japanese woman known as Murasaki Shikibu penned what is often deemed the world’s first novel: a 54-chapter sojourn through the romantic and political exploits of a ...

Yamato Waki, Genji approaching death, from the series “The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn” (1989) (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans ...

At no time over the past 1,000 years has “The Tale of Genji” fallen out of favor with the Japanese public. Begun at the turn of the 11th century by a woman known to history as Murasaki Shikibu, the ...

The tale of Genji and the dynamics of cultural production: canonization and popularization / Haruo Shirane -- The late Heian and medieval periods: court culture, gender, and representation -- Figure ...

The renowned 11th-century Japanese literary masterpiece is receiving great attention these days (see PW Interview, Aug. 20). Here it is paid elegant tribute in The Tale of Genji: Paintings and Legends ...

Murasaki Shikibu, a Japanese widow on the fringes of nobility, wrote what is considered the world’s first novel, in the eleventh century. It’s an epic of seduction that follows the romantic intrigues ...

THE prospect of a ‘six-decker’ novel might well seem formidable to the reader, much more to the translator, yet few will question the value of the service which Mr. Arthur Waley has performed in ...