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In the house covered in dew-drenched vines the cry of insects is unchanged from autumns past.
“Now, when life had at last become easy for her, she learned for the first time what boredom meant.”
― The Wild Goose
― The Wild Goose
“In the house covered in dew-drenched vines the cry of insects is unchanged from autumns past.”
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
“The autumn night is too short to contain my tears Though songs of bell cricket weary, fall into silence.”
― The Tale of Genji
― The Tale of Genji
“Akiko, we might conclude, was decidedly a modern, but one with a private vision; a writer of her age, but by no means typical of her age. Fortunately it was an age in which her emulation of the life and work of a paragon of a millennium past struck her contemporaries (and many of our own) as the very height of both literary and academic modernity.”
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
“Were I asked whether it would be desirable that The Tale of Genji be translated into the modern colloquial language, I would without hesitation answer yes. I am very keen to have a translation of this tale… . For translations of simple kanbun written by people of the Edo period, I see no need whatever. What I desire are translations of the truly ancient texts of this nation, such as the Kojiki. From a slightly later period, of the several fictions, a translation of The Tale of Genji is what is most needful… . Whenever I read The Tale of Genji, I always sense a certain resistance; and if that cannot be overcome, I cannot grasp the meaning of the words. The Tale of Genji, it seems to me, is written in a style that in itself, quite apart from the antiquity of the words, is by no means easy to understand.”
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
― Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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