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.
:) Yeah, it helps to realize things that Genji's being incredibly rude by not sending a morning letter, or that by not spending the second and third nights in the company of young Murasaki, he's not yet extending his protection over her.
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