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Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF MOST IMPORTANT PERSONS
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
CHAPTER I. KIRITSUBO1
CHAPTER II. THE BROOM-TREE
CHAPTER III. UTSUSEMI
CHAPTER IV. YŪGAO
CHAPTER V. MURASAKI
CHAPTER VI. THE SAFFRON-FLOWER
CHAPTER VII. THE FESTIVAL OF RED LEAVES
CHAPTER VIII. THE FLOWER FEAST
CHAPTER IX. AOI
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II. The Vestal Virgins of Ise and Kamo
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Murasaki Shikibu
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Some say that the name of Hikaru the Shining One was given to him in admiration by the Korean fortune-teller.17
1 This chapter should be read with indulgence. In it Murasaki, still under the influence of her somewhat childish predecessors, writes in a manner which is a blend of the Court chronicle with the conventional fairy-tale.
