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Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 976-ca. 1031) was a Japanese writer of the late Heian period. Her "The Tale of Genji," the world's first psychological novel, is one of the longest and most distinguished masterpieces of Japanese literature. The exact dates of the l...

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji, considered the world’s first great novel, describes the life of Japanese court society during the Heian period (794-1185) about 50 years before the lifetime of the author, Murasaki Shikibu...

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji Monogatari?) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's...

MURASAKI SHIKIBU, TRANS. FROM THE JAPANESE BY ROYALL TYLER. Viking, $60 (1,200p) ISBN 0-670-03020-1 * Widely recognized as the world's first novel, as well as one of its best, the 11th-century tale of Genji the shining prince has been painstakingly and tenderly...

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: It is a world the reader can explore for days without coming to...

This essay is a comparison of relationships in "The tale of Genji" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"