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Costume Museum, Kyoto

Take a tour of the Genji Monogatari exhibit at the Costume Museum in Kyoto.

Palm-of-the-Hand Genji

Pages from a 28-volume boxed set of mini Genji commentaries, also useful for identifying frangances or as a board game. Source.

Teika's Wakamurasaki

A copy of chapter five of the Tale of Genji transcribed by Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) has been discovered in a box in a storeroom of the noble Okochi family. Teika's is the oldest known manuscript of the novel, and this is only the fifth chapter of it to come to light. Source.

Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji

Read about False Murasaki's Rustic Genji and other reimagined Heian classics here.

Moriyasu Bon Genji Monogatari Emaki

Prince Genji mourns Yugao in the recently uncovered Moriyasu Bon handscroll. Source.

Genji at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum in New York will have an exhibition of art associated with The Tale of Genji until June 16. Source.

Google Monogatari

This Google doodle for November 1, 2008 commemorated the thousandth anniversary of The Tale of Genji.

Kikou Yamata by Tsuguharu Foujita

Kikou Yamata (1897-1975) was a French-Japanese novelist and journalist, who produced the first French translation of The Tale of Genji in 1928. This portrait is by Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), the French-Japanese painter. Source. See her bibliography here.

Murasaki Shikibu by Harunobu

Murasaki Shikibu as Fidelity, by Suzuki Harunobu from the series Five Cardinal Virtues, c. 1767.

Genji Opera

Minoru Miki's opera The Tale of Genji premiered in St Louis in the year 2000. Review.