TEXTS:

Seidensticker, Edward tr. Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Field, Norma. The Splendor of Longing in The Tale of Genji. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

MORE AND MORE PUBLICATIONS ARE APPEARING REGULARLY WHICH DEAL WITH THIS GREATEST OF JAPANESE LITERARY TEXTS, BUT HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MOST RECENT AS WELL AS THE MOST USEFUL:

Bowring, Richard tr.The Diary of Lady Murasaki. Penguin USA, 1996.

Kamens, Edward ed. Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.

Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince:Court Life in Ancient Japan.

New York: Kodansha Globe, 1994.

Okada, H. Richard. Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry and Narrating in the Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts (Post-Contemporary Interventions). Duke University Press, 1992.

Chapter Finding List for The Tale of Genji

The Young Life of an Amorous Man.

Review Session: The Tripartite Structure of The Tale of Genji:

The Success Story - Chapters 1-33, The Tarnished Success Story - Chapters34-41,

The Failure of the Dream - Chapters 45-54.

Mama Trauma in The Tale of Genji

Readings:

TOG 1-6, pp.3-131 (TOG refers to the Seidensticker one volume paper edition

of The Tale of Genji.

Page numbers are for that edition.)

Cracking the Inner Circle and The Exile Years.

Readings:

TOG 7-13, pp. 132-270.

A Matter of Character I

Redefining the World: Self-made Cosmos.

Readings:　

TOG 14-21, pp. 271-386.

Tamakazura: Female Avenger.

A Matter of Character II

Readings:　

TOG 22-33, pp. 387-536.

Tarnished Glow: Genji and Murasaki at Home and at the End.

Readings:

TOG 34-41, pp. 537-734.

Lovers Without Love - The Years at Uji.

Readings:　

TOG 45-50, pp. 775-971.

Suicide, Amnesia, and the Bobbing Boat.

A Matter of Character III

Readings:

TOG 51-54, pp. 972-1090

TOG POEM ANALYSIS TEMPLATE

General Points from The Splendor of Longing in The Tale of Genji of Use in Seminar Preparation　

Points from Ch.7-13　

TOG 7-13: Momiji no Ga, Hana no En, Aoi, Sakaki, Hana Chiru Sato, Suma, Akashi

Points from Ch.14-21

TOG 14-21: Miotsukushi,Yomogiu, Sekiya, Eawase, Matsukaze, Usugumo, Asagao, Otome

Points from Ch.22-33　

TOG 22-33: Tamakazura,Hatsune,Kocho, Hotaru, Tokonatsu,Kagaribi, Nowaki, Miyuki,　

Fujibakama, Makibashira, Umegae, Fuji no Uraba

Points from Ch.34-41　

TOG 34-41: Wakana Jo, Wakana Ge, Kashiwagi,Yokobue,Suzumushi, Yugiri, Minori,　

Maboroshi

Points from Ch.45-50　

TOG 45-50: Hashihime,Shiiga Moto, Agenaki, Sawarabi, Yadorigi, Azumaya

Points from Ch.51-54　

TOG 51-54: Ukifune, Kagero, Tenarai, Yume no Ukihashi