Word: shikibu
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...Keene's enchantment with Japanese literature began when he stumbled on Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century classic The Tale of Genji in a Times Square bookshop in 1940. The hero Genji is a sensitive aristocrat who pursues beauty in a world he knows more readily offers sadness. With the news from Europe full of Nazi advances, Keene writes, "I turned to it as a refuge from all I hated in the world around me." The translation was by Arthur Waley, a British polyglot who was also a famed translator of classical Chinese literature. Keene eventually befriended him, and years later...
...film follows Lecter as he witnesses multiple atrocities of the Eastern front with his sister Mischa. After Mischa is gruesomely murdered—devoured, you could say—by a group of Nazi sympathizers, he is adopted by his uncle and the beautiful Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Gong Li), a foil to Clarice Starling and the love interest for Lecter. Though Hopkins was not the first cinematic Lecter (that honor goes to Brian Cox, star of the original 1986 “Manhunter”), his Oscar-winning performance in “Silence of the Lambs” disgusted...
...Genji was written a thousand years ago, and the name of its author has not come down to us. (It is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu. Murasaki is the name given to a charming character in the book, later attached to the writer as a joke or compliment that stuck. Shikibu is the name of an office the character's father once held.) The English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding...
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