Genji chapter 2 also popped up unexpectedly in my essay this week! Reading Genji in the 21st century has been really difficult for me. I started by buying Yamato Waki's manga version a few years ago, but interestingly, she skips chapter 2 and the Utsusemi story. I was fascinated when you mentioned that Seidensticker skipped it too, I've never read the Seidensticker version. I quoted Waley in my essay, but then it occurred to me to check Royall Tyler. I hadn't read his translation but I'd just bought it. He changed the tone of that passage with paragraphing!
Imagining what Yamato Waki would have drawn if she had included Utsusemi is really scary. I'm finding it hard to get rid of that mental image of Chujo standing in the hallway outside Genji's room.
I was a terrible philosophy student, so I desperately need to go read your 3 Quarks essay!
This is so thought provoking, Leanne! I really appreciate your comments in response to Pandey's work. Indeed, you've packed so much into this short piece. I have to dive in to Genji this weekend!
Genji chapter 2 also popped up unexpectedly in my essay this week! Reading Genji in the 21st century has been really difficult for me. I started by buying Yamato Waki's manga version a few years ago, but interestingly, she skips chapter 2 and the Utsusemi story. I was fascinated when you mentioned that Seidensticker skipped it too, I've never read the Seidensticker version. I quoted Waley in my essay, but then it occurred to me to check Royall Tyler. I hadn't read his translation but I'd just bought it. He changed the tone of that passage with paragraphing!
Imagining what Yamato Waki would have drawn if she had included Utsusemi is really scary. I'm finding it hard to get rid of that mental image of Chujo standing in the hallway outside Genji's room.
I was a terrible philosophy student, so I desperately need to go read your 3 Quarks essay!
I hope you continue this wonderful series (and I see it becoming a book). I will want to have this with me the next time I reread Genji.
This is so thought provoking, Leanne! I really appreciate your comments in response to Pandey's work. Indeed, you've packed so much into this short piece. I have to dive in to Genji this weekend!