Women of Genji

An academic blog analyzing the women in Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" and how these characterizations of women are represented in modern Japanese texts and the world today.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006


To celebrate the new blog, and the re-mentioning of wabi sabi et al in class, enjoy. Hopefully I'll be able to take some different pictures during my second visit to Nitobe as it will be Spring and not Fall this time (so I won't freeze my hands off).

Anyways, to maybe put this into Genji-rial perspective... eh... his romantic excursions or moments of just relaxing.
First things first, there is NOTHING vulgar about this site, this is strictly about the women in Genji and those in other novels we read, in relation to those in Genji of course.

Example, the psychotic mother in "Masks".

And yes, I fixed my typo :P