Prince Genji
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The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) is the greatest novel in classical
Japanese literature, and arguably, the world’s first novel. It was written in the first decade of the eleventh
century by Lady Murasaki, and relates the womanizing exploits of Prince
Genji. Most of the prints depicting
Prince Genji portray a sumptuously clothed prince with beautiful women, who
are also extravagantly dressed. |
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Series |
Date |
Robinson 1982* |
Robinson 1961‡ |
Schaap 1998† |
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Heroic Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Buyû nazorae Genji) |
1843 |
S28 |
27 |
3 |
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Ukiyo-e Comparisons for the Cloudy Chapters of Genji (Genji kumo ukiyoe awase) |
1845-1846 |
S45 |
36 |
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Select Five Elements (triptychs) (Mitate go gyô) |
1852 |
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139 |
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Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji) |
1855-1856 |
S88 |
63 |
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147 |
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* Series number in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement ‡ Listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London † Listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998) |
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