| ISBN |
9781905246755 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Reading the Tale of Genji : its picture-scrolls, texts and romance / edited by Richard Stanley-Baker, Murakami Fuminobu and Jeremy Tambling |
| Publisher |
Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2009 |
| Physical desc. |
xviii, 188 p., [39] p. of plates ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and indexes |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reading the Genji Scrolls and the Tale of Genji / Richard Stanley-Baker, Murakami Fuminobu and Jeremy Tambling -- Pt. 1: Reading the Genji Scrolls: Scripting the moribund: the Genji Scrolls' aesthetics of decomposition / Reginal Jackson -- The narration of tales, the narration of paintings / Sano Midori (translated by Sinead Kehoe) -- Pt. 2: Reading the Genji texts: Displacements of conquest, or exile, the Tale of Genji, and post-cold war learning / Richard H. Okada -- Person, honorifics and tense in the Tale of Genji / Murakami Fuminobu -- Pt. 3: Reading the Genji romance: 'Kiritsubo': Genji, spacing and naming / Jeremy Tambling -- Genji and the gardens of medieval romance / Richard Stanley-Baker. |
| Person as subject |
Murasaki Shikibu -- b. 978? Genji monogatari |
| Subject |
Genji monogatari emaki |
| Japanese fiction -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- History and criticism |
| Scrolls, Japanese -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- History and criticism |
| Narrative painting, Japanese -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- History and criticism |
| Japan -- Social life and customs -- To 1600 -- Fiction |
| Added name(s) |
Stanley-Baker, Richard ed. |
| Murakami, Fuminobu 1951- ed. |
| Tambling, Jeremy ed. |
