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This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The Tale of Genji This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd i 23/6/2018 1:02 PM ii |The Tale of Genji This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd ii 23/6/2018 1:02 PM The Tale of Genji A Visual Companion Melissa McCormick Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd iii 23/6/2018 1:02 PM Copyright © 2018 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu Front matter illustrations: p. ii, detail of image on p. 88; p. vi, detail of image on p. 232; p. viii, detail of image on p. 68; p. x, detail of image on p. 160 Jacket illustration: (front) Tosa Mitsunobu, The Lady at Akashi (Chapter 13) from The Tale of Genji Album, 1510. Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Tale of Genji, translated by Dennis Washburn. Copyright © 2015 by Dennis Washburn. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Poems from A Waka Anthology, Volume Two: Grasses of Remembrance, Part B, by Edwin A. Cranston. Copyright © 2006 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher, Stanford University Press, sup.org. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McCormick, Melissa, 1967– Title: The Tale of Genji : a visual companion / Melissa McCormick. Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: lccn 2017061368 | isbn 9780691172682 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Murasaki Shikibu, 978?– Genji monogatari — Illustrations. | Genji album — Illustrations. | Painting, Japanese — Themes, motives. | Tosa, Mitsunobu, 1434?–1525. | Arts and society — Japan — History. | Japanese literature — Heian period, 794–1185 — History and criticism. Classifi cation: lcc nd1059.t6585 t35 2018 | ddc 895.63/14 — dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017061368 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Designed by Yve Ludwig This book has been composed in Dante Pro and Kozuka Mincho Pro Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Printed in China 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd iv 23/6/2018 1:02 PM Contents vii Acknowledgments ix Note to Reader 1 Introduction The Tale of Genji Album of 1510 23 Chapters 1–54 240 Appendix: Album Calligraphy Key 242 Glossary 244 The Album: Works Cited and Consulted 246 Bibliography 247 Index 254 Image Credits This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:51 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd v 23/6/2018 1:02 PM This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:51 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd vi 23/6/2018 1:02 PM Acknowledgments Over the years, the students in my seminars and lec- Meech, Mitamura Masako, Sano Midori, Edith tures onThe Tale of Genji, through their questions, Sarra, Haruo Shirane, Royal Tyler, J. Keith Vincent, insights, skepticism, and wonder over the tale, have Dennis Washburn, Watanabe Masako, and espe- been a constant source of inspiration, and this book cially the late H. Richard Okada and the late Chino was written with them always in mind. The ability Kaori. For their direct engagement with the man- to teach with the Genji Album and to examine it up uscript I am grateful to Fumiko Cranston, Gustav close on multiple occasions has enriched this project Heldt, Itō Tetsuya, Kimura Atsuko, Andrew Watsky, beyond measure. For that, I am indebted to the late and to Christopher Jury, for his meticulous editing. Philip Hofer, who bequeathed his collection to the The collections at the Harvard-Yenching Library Harvard Art Museums, and to the institution today and the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, and for making it so accessible. I express my sincere their respective librarians, Kuniko Yamada McVey thanks to Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Nanni Deng, were indispensable to this book’s Associate Curator of Asian Art, and to Mary Lister, completion. At Princeton University Press, Michelle Manager of the Art Study Center at the Harvard Art Komie shared my vision for the volume from the Museums, for accommodating numerous requests beginning and worked tirelessly and with endless and for their dedication to the pedagogical mission patience to see it to fruition. For the production, of the museum. Likewise, the ability to view the design, and editing of the book, I wish to thank album alongside visiting colleagues, in particular, Mark Bellis, Steve Sears, Dawn Hall, and Yve Ludwig Takagishi Akira, Ido Misato, Kamei Wakana, and for the professionalism and artistry that they bring Ikeda Shinobu, deepened my understanding of to their work. Emily Shelton’s careful proofreading the work, and I thank them for their insights and during the fi nal stages of the book’s production was intellectual generosity. Conversations with Genji invaluable, as was Blythe Woolston’s thoughtful and scholars also helped shaped this book, with special expert indexing. Finally, I extend my most heartfelt thanks going to Estelle Bauer, Edwin Cranston, Ii thanks to my family for their patience and support Haruki, Edward Kamens, Kasashima Tadayuki, and their belief in this project. To Kio and Azusa, I Kawazoe Fusae, Kojima Naoko, Yukio Lippit, Julia am forever grateful. vii This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:53 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd vii 23/6/2018 1:02 PM viii |The Tale of Genji This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:53 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd viii 23/6/2018 1:02 PM Note to Reader The pages that follow reproduce for the fi rst time in script beneath each calligraphy leaf to make them as color all 108 painting and calligraphy leaves of The accessible as possible, following the transliteration in Tale of Genji Album (1510) by Tosa Mitsunobu (act. Fumiko E. Cranston, “Hābādō Daigaku Bijutsukan ca. 1462–1525) in the collection of the Harvard Art zō ‘Genji monogatari gajō’ kotobagaki shakumon,” Museums, along with English translations of the Kokka no. 1222 (1997): 54–57. The romanization of album’s texts. Foundational to the writing of The the calligraphy follows modern reading conventions Tale of Genji and integral to its later reception are rather than historical orthography, and punctuation the 795 waka (poems in 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic meter), marks are based on the annotated edition of The Tale interspersed throughout the prose, which the of Genji in Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū album emphasizes by allotting thirty-four of the (Tokyo: Shōgakkan, 1994–98). Corresponding page fi fty-four calligraphy leaves to verse rather than numbers in this edition to all of the album’s texts prose excerpts. Unless otherwise noted, translations are provided in the bibliography. Except for a few of poems in the book are taken from Edwin A. modifi cations and translations of my own to match Cranston, A Waka Anthology, vol. 2: Grasses of the album excerpts, all English translations of prose Remembrance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University passages and Genji chapter titles are taken from Press, 2006). All of the album’s texts have been Dennis Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji rendered into the modern, standardized Japanese (New York: Norton, 2015). ix This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:23:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SS180121-Genji_061518.indd ix 23/6/2018 1:02 PM
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