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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note to Reader; Introduction; The Tale of Genji Album of 1510; 1 The Lady of the Paulownia-Courtyard Chambers; 2 Broom Cypress; 3 A Molted Cicada Shell; 4 The Lady of the Evening Faces; 5 Little Purple Gromwell; 6 The Safflower; 7 An Imperial Celebration of Autumn Foliage; 8 A Banquet Celebrating Cherry Blossoms; 9 Leaves of Wild Ginger; 10 A Branch of Sacred Evergreen; 11 The Lady at the Villa of Scattering Orange Blossoms; 12 Exile to Suma; 13 The Lady at Akashi; 14 Channel Markers; 15 A Ruined Villa of Tangled Gardens.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Note to reader -- Introduction -- The Tale of Genji album of 1510 -- Chapters 1-54 -- Appendix: Album calligraphy key -- Glossary.…”

Table of Contents: “…THE TALE OF GENJI --…”

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents ; Illustrations; Abbreviations and Periods of Japanese History; Chapter Titles of The Tale of Genji; Introduction; 1. Early Discussions of Fiction; 2. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Three heroines and the making of the hero : dichotomies and substitution: Fujitsubo ; Transgression, exile, and the development of fiction ; The Rokujō lady: pride and possession ; The elusive self in Heian Japan ; Meeting in exile ; At the capital: the Akashi lady as urban aristocrat -- A minor heroine and the unmaking of the hero : Minor chapters and minor heroines ; The noble exile and the stepdaughter ; The eastern pavilion and the battle of the seasons ; The Rokujōin ; Fiction and courtship ; Varieties of carnation: The lady of Ōmi and Tamakazura ; Autumn in Rokujōin ; Tamakazura: the stolen prize -- A substitute for all seasons : The naming of a heroine ; Childhood as a symbolic state ; Idealized banality and its rupture ; The growth of vision ; The staging of death ; The hero alone -- Women beyond the capital : Uji before the Uji chapters ; Secrets, fragrances, and vocation: the men of Uji ; Sisterhood in Uji: Ōigimi, the firstborn ; Between authenticity and substitution: Nakanokimi ; Drifting beyond substitution: Ukifune -- Postscript -- Appendix: chapter titles in the tale of Genji.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Tale of Genji: Women's Romance, Men's Classic -- Chapter Two. …”
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“…Splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji…”

Table of Contents: “…The tale of Genji in the life and work of Yosano Akiko -- The tale of Genji: women's romance, men's classic -- Secret Joy: Akiko's childhood reading -- The tale of Genji in the Meiji period -- A Murasaki Shikibu for the Meiji period -- The Shin'yaku Genji monogatari -- A Genji of her own: textual malfeasance in Shin'yaku Genji monogatari -- Akiko's last Genjis -- The tale of Genji": "my whole life's work".…”

Table of Contents: “…The cultural background -- The tale of Genji -- Language and style -- Impact, influence, and reception.…”