Status Updates From The Tale of Genji by Yoshit...

Car Dieu a tant aimé les Japonais, qu'Il leur a donné le merveilleux don d'écrire. Kurosawa, espèce de fainéant ! Tu aurais dû en faire un film, tu aurais eu tous les ingrédients nécessaires.

F - "My lord, what do you seek in your lady companions ? "

Genji - " Beauty, of course. But there is something more, a sense of grace, a depth of character that sets them apart from the ordinary".

F - " And what of love ?

Genji - " Perhaps, but love is such a fickle thing, and it can bring great pain as well as great joy. I fear that my pursuit of beauty has blinded me to the true meaning of love " .

" This chapter should be read with indulgence. In it, Murasaki writes in a manner which is a blend of the Court chronicle with the conventional fairy-tale".

Hmm... Kind of X-Files. Mulder, a case for you.

a really nice summary of the loves of genji. feels like a primer for the novel with beautiful illustrations