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The previous chapter of The Tale of Genji that I looked at, ‘Aoi’, was so action-packed that I had to continue my take into a second post, but the excitement certainly didn’t stop…| Tony's Reading List
After an amorous side-quest last time around, one that didn’t go quite to plan, this chapter of The Tale of Genji gets us back on the main track of the story, with more about life at court an…| Tony's Reading List
In the previous chapter of The Tale of Genji, we saw our ‘hero’ hard at work with a spot of light infidelity, gaslighting, grooming and kidnapping, all while recovering from illness. H…| Tony's Reading List
Over the past few years, I’ve steadily been building up my collection of works on Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, and many of these have helped me deepen my knowledge of the Tale …| Tony's Reading List
It was during Women in Translation Month three years ago that my obsession with The Tale of Genji gathered speed, with a project to compare the various translations of the novel into English along …| Tony's Reading List
After a few hard shifts at the factory, I’m moving on today to something slightly different, a book that combines fiction and real life. Last year, as some of you may recall, I worked my way…| Tony's Reading List
One of the most fascinating times in Japanese history was the Heian period (794-1185), and we’re fortunate to have a number of translations into English, of both fiction and non-fiction works…| Tony's Reading List
Given that there was already an early partial translation of Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji in English, as well as a virtually complete version, you might wonder what the point would be…| Tony's Reading List
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In 2021, during August’s Women in Translation Month, I decided to embark on a project centred upon Murasaki Shikibu’s classic Japanese novel The Tale of Genji. I had read the book befo…| Tony's Reading List
