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Chapter 3 Notes
This chapter contines directly from where chapter two left off.
Chapter Two
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The Tale of Genji: Chapters 1-4
Chapter One, "The Lady of the Pawlonia Court": Since I'm behind everyone else, I won't bother with a summary of the action. I made a family tree to plot out the relationships, which mostly made me wish I had a good copy of Visio, as doing it by hand meant I never left enough space for any half-siblings who would appear later on. What I got out of ( Read more... ) -
My Genji posts
The FAQ that started the entire thing, with some commentary on Genji in the comments.
Chapter 1: The Paulownia Court (in which the Perfect One is born).
Chapter 2: The Broom Tree (in which Genji consoles himself with a young boy)
Chapter 3: The Shell of the Locust (in which Stalker Genji steals a robe)
Chapter 4: Evening Faces (in which a ghost ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 1-5
Links to my original Genji posts. I'm reading the Royall Tyler translation. I also tend to incorporate cultural notes as I run across them, from footnotes in the Tyler or from Ivan Morris' The World of the Shining Prince.
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links to chapter 1-5 posts
Here are links to the posts I've already done on Genji; I'm reading the Seidensticker translation.
I'll be making subsequent Genji posts here, and putting pointers in my personal journal, because I prefer not to split discussion and I expect to find it easier to keep track of comments in the community.