aKI - 古典文学 1

Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-and after more than a millennium, this seminal work continues to enchant readers throughout the world. Lady Murasaki Shikibu and her tale's hero, Prince Genji, have had an unmatched i……続きを見る

This masterly translation by Edward G Seidensticker, first published in 1976 with an informative Introduction, does not attempt to supplant Waley's, but rather to reflect with more accuracy and with less elaboration the work that Lady Murasaki actually created while in the service of the empress A……続きを見る

After the publication of “The Natural World, Human Beings, and Life” in July 2012, following a computer malfunction, I decided to take the opportunity to fill in the squares of manuscript paper word by word, as I did in the past, and started to write “Kokyo Shoshin, Wisdom of Our Ancestors Learned……続きを見る