The Tale of Genji: Imaged and Reimagined

In this Genshitsu Sen lecture, Dr. Bruce A. Coats, professor of art history and the humanities at Scripps College, surveys the extraordinary literary and visual art traditions inspired by the 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji, written by Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikibu, with an emphasis on how the novel has been imaged and reimagined for a millennium.

Photo caption: Ebina Masao (1913–1980), The Tale of Genji: Chapter 24, Butterflies, c. 1960, woodblock print, Scripps College, 2003.1.45, photo by Jan Blair