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unusual facts about The Tale of Genji


Kyū Ni Ichi Jiken

# Ukifune (浮舟 Floating Boat) (a character and chapter title from The Tale of Genji)


Jane Smiley

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. M. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.

Waki Yamato

Yamato spent 13 years (1980–93) completing this famous long work, based on Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji.


see also

Kaoru Genji

In the final chapters of the Tale of Genji abruptly end, with Kaoru wondering if the lady he loves, Ukifune is being hidden away by Niou.