Murasaki Shikibu Books
The Tale of Genji
By Murasaki Shikibu, Murasaki Shikibu Translated, Introduction By Edward G. Seidensticker
 In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The...
Read More
The Tale of Genji
In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nua...
Read More
