In my last post, looking at some of the events in the ‘Sakaki’ chapter of The Tale of Genji, I focused heavily on our hero’s love life, or rather, on certain romantic setbacks. H…| Tony's Reading List
While yesterday’s first step along the road of The Tale of Genji translations looked at a partial version, today’s post focuses on a far more complete text, albeit one that doesn’…| Tony's Reading List
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
