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...TALE OF GENJI, PART IV-BLUE TROUSERS-Lady Murasaki, translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin...
...outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...TALE OF GENJI-Lady Murasaki- Houghton, Mifflin ($3) was reviewed in TIME, Aug. 3, 1925. Sequels are called The Sacred Tree and The Wreath of Cloud...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
...that she served as a lady in waiting in a family that possessed a copy of the so-called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication as we know it was unknown in 1000 A. D., even in Japan. The earliest Genji texts are a series of handwritten rolls prepared for great families; the first printed edition dates to 1650, of which the British Museum has a copy. Numerous succeeding editions have appeared, for Genji...