A String of Flowers, Untied...: Love Poems from the Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu

Expressions of passion and heartbreak, written by the court lady Murasaki Shikibu a thousand years ago, transcend time and culture in this new translation of poetry from the first 33 chapters of The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880656620
• ISBN13: 9781880656624
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The Tale of Genji

Beside being of important literary value Jane Reichhold's translation of "The Tale of Genji" is a work of both historic and anthropological significance. The importance of a type of poem, the tanka, to educated Japanese may be difficult for the average American reader to appreciate. In cultures where manners and formality mark social interaction poetry often becomes the vehicle of deep personal feelings. Japanese, as well as Arab and Persian society, are such cultures.This new translation of Murasaki Shikubu's "Love Poems from The Tale of Genji" is must reading for those who would understand the world view of cultures other than their own. Robert Gibson

Over 400 tanka poems filled with love & sexual desire

A String of Flowers, Untied... Love Poems From The Tale of Genji is a new, evocative translation of poetry by Jane Reichhold (with the assistance of hatsue Kawamura) drawn from the first 33 chapters of the classic cornerstone of Japanese literature, "The Tale of Genji." Over 400 tanka poems filled with love, sexual desire, longing, and pleasures of the flesh fill the pages of this emotional and passionate rendition. "to be alone/remembering times when one/lived like a fisherman/pictures drawn on tidal flats/is what I should have been"