The Tale of Genji is not driven by plot, but by character. Reading it in installments, as the aristocratic women of the court did, it must have been like following a soap opera.

TOKYO — Perhaps it was the fact that my daughter was in her final year of high school while I was reading “The Tale of Genji,” a 1,300-page tome written more than 1,000 years ago by a lady ...

ST. LOUIS -- Lady Murasaki Shikibu's massive and episodic novel, "The Tale of Genji," is an unlikely source for an opera. Running some 1,000 pages, it has the particular charm of very long books ...

For readers in English, there are four principal translations of “The Tale of Genji,” Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century classic. Arthur Waley’s version first introduced the work in its (near ...

Reading The Tale of Genji is an excellent way to understand Japanese literature, and the country’s culture in general. Its devoted readers over the centuries include Kawabata Yasunari, the ...

Written 1,000 years ago, the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji is often called the world’s first novel. Following the life and romances of Hikaru Genji, it was written by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu.

Fans of the world's most famous romance novel The Tale of Genji have been writing fanfic and making fan art for a century, and now they're in The Met.

“The Tale of Genji” is a huge embarrassment to this historiography, because it has every one of those attributes (though the “everyday life” is everyday life in a court), and it was ...

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 ...

The opening of ‘Tale of the Genji’ is after the jump. Carolyn Kellogg. In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others.

The Tale of Genji, a new opera by Minoru Miki with a libretto by Colin Graham, premiered Thursday, the fourth and last of Opera Theatre of St. Louis' productions for its 25th season.