Table of Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Preface

pp.：  7 – 8

A Note to the Reader

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Plates

pp.：  11 – 12

Introduction: Reading The Genji Scrolls and The Tale of Genji

pp.：  13 – 16

Part 1 Reading The Genji Scrolls

pp.：  17 – 18

1 Scripting the Moribund: The Genji Scrolls’ Aesthetics of Decomposition

pp.：  19 – 52

OVERTURE

pp.：  19 – 19

READING INFIRM DEPICTIONS: PORTRAYALS OF ILLNESS AND CALLIGRAPHIC DISTENSION IN THE GENJI SCROLLS’ KASHIWAGI AND MINORI

pp.：  20 – 22

ART HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

pp.：  23 – 24

PAPER DESIGN / CALLIGRAPHY

pp.：  25 – 30

SOUNDING OUT THE SCRIPT

pp.：  31 – 52

2 The Narration of Tales, the Narration of Paintings

pp.：  53 – 76

UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVE, UNDERSTANDING PAINTINGS

pp.：  53 – 56

NARRATING IN THE TALE OF GENJI SCROLLS

pp.：  57 – 65

CONCLUSIONS AND AMENDMENTS – THE READER BEYOND THE PLOT

pp.：  66 – 76

Part 2 Reading the Genji Texts

pp.：  77 – 78

3 Displacements of Conquest, or Exile, The Tale of Genji, and Post-Cold War Learning

pp.：  79 – 95

4 Person, Honorifics and Tense in The Tale of Genji

pp.：  96 – 116

PERSON AND HONORIFICS

pp.：  96 – 107

‘き’ (KI) AND ‘けり’ (KERI)

pp.：  108 – 112

CONCLUSION

pp.：  113 – 116

Part 3 Reading the Genji Romance

pp.：  117 – 118

5 ‘Kiritsubo’: Genji, Spacing and Naming

pp.：  119 – 147

INTRODUCTION

pp.：  119 – 120

READING THE MEDIEVAL TEXT

pp.：  121 – 123

OPENINGS AND PRIOR NARRATIVES

pp.：  124 – 126

MOURNING AND MELANCHOLIA

pp.：  127 – 132

HOMOGENEITY AND HETEROGENEITY

pp.：  133 – 135

MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY

pp.：  136 – 136

LANGUAGE AND DESIRE

pp.：  137 – 147

6 Genji and the Gardens of Medieval Romance

pp.：  148 – 186

INTRODUCTION

pp.：  148 – 148

MEDIEVAL ROMANCE: GLOBAL MARKERS

pp.：  149 – 151

HISTORIC GARDENS AND ROMANCE’S DIFFÉRENCE

pp.：  152 – 153

THE GARDENS OF GENJI

pp.：  154 – 161

ENCHANTMENT AND DANGER IN THE GARDEN

pp.：  162 – 162

THE ENCLOSED GARDEN OF JAPANESE ROMANCE

pp.：  163 – 165

THE ROKUJO GARDENS FOR ALL SEASONS: A TROPE OF IMPERIAL SAGE-RULERSHIP

pp.：  166 – 167

THE GARDENS OF ‘MYTHIC’ SPRING

pp.：  168 – 169

THE ‘EARTHLY PARADISE’ AND SPIRITUAL PERFECTIBILITY

pp.：  170 – 172

EXCURSIONS AND IDYLL ON THE POND

pp.：  173 – 175

CONCLUSION

pp.：  176 – 186

Appendix

pp.：  187 – 190

Bibliography of Japanese Sources

pp.：  191 – 195

General Index

pp.：  196 – 201

Author Index

pp.：  202 – 204

Plates

pp.：  205 – 243