The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion (2018, Princeton University Press) by Melissa McCormick (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) That’s because this book focuses narrowly on 108 paintings ...

The word "novel" quite literally means "new." As in a "new story" or a "new way of writing." And while it's true that popular novels as we know them are fairly "new," the modern novel as an art form ...

THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS—Lady Murasaki—Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Citizens of the Western world who think of Japanese civilization as dating from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) would change their ...

Illustrations by Tosa Mitsunobu, 1434–1525, with text by Various calligraphers. "Tale of Genji Album of Illustrations and Calligraphic Excerpts." Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573), 1509. (Harvard ...

The cosplay in question goes by Tasha Cosplay and she is known for her incredible takes on anime and gaming characters. Though the armor is distinctly Genji, the face markers and posing gives a slight ...

If you're looking for a book to read, The Tale of Genji is one worth reaching for, even if you've read it before, and even if you've read it more than once. But why is this novel so important, and how ...

Murasaki Shikibu, a Japanese widow on the fringes of nobility, wrote what is considered the world’s first novel, in the eleventh century. It’s an epic of seduction that follows the romantic intrigues ...

NEW YORK — Imagine a world where the things in life that count most - pillow talk, matters of the heart, adjustments of power both subtle and sudden - are continually glimpsed as if through a screen, ...