Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai

Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1 Genji monogatari hyōshaku (1854); first page of the “Kiritsubo” chapter 28 Figure 2 Zōchū kogetsushō (1927, based on original text from 1673, revised in 1890); first page of the “Kagerō” chapter 138 Figure 3 Nihon bungaku zensho, Genji monogatari (1890); first page of the “Kagerō” chapter 141 ix ...