Genji monogatari
Genji monogatari (scilicet "Gesta Genji"; Iaponice 源氏物語) est mythistoria litterarum Iaponicarum antiqua et praeclarissima, saeculo XI ineunte a domina Murasaki composita.

Qui hoc opus "mythistoriam orbis terrarum primam" nuncupant aliarum litterarum obliviscuntur, Graecae, Latinae, Sanscritae, necnon mythistoriarum Iaponicarum antiquiorum. Multi autem "mythistoriam primam" adseverant "psychologicam" et "modernam": protagonista enim Genji plene describitur et verisimiliter evolvitur; personae aliae bene characterizantur; vitae personarum fere quadringentorum ab auctore congruenter diriguntur.

Ratio 
Describitur vita tota filii cuiusdam imperatoris Iaponici saeculo fere X florentis. Filius lectoribus nomine Hikaru Genji ("Genji lucens") notus est, quod nomen (Genji, 源氏) homographum est verae familiae Minamoto-no-Uji (源の氏). Ob rationes aulae imperialis Genji ab optimatis eiectus est et, cognomen Minamoto gerens, munus officiale accipit; formosus est et a multis mulieribus amatus.

Stilus et indoles 
Eo tempore apud aulam imperialem nomina vera hominum haud enuntiata sunt. Personae igitur huius mythistoriae nomina non habent: viri ab officio seu munere nuncupantur; mulieres a colore vestium, a verbis seu rebus recordatis, vel ab officio patris; et interdum una persona agnominibus variis per mythistoriam notatur. In colloquiis carmina wakae crebriter citantur saepeque allusiones recelant; quae carmina lectoribus primordialibus bene nota igiturque partim omissa studentibus hodiernis satis obscura manent. Scriptrix verbis Sinicis mutuatis satis paucis usa est (rebus politicis et religiosis exceptis), aut quia lectoribus praecipue femininis adloquebatur eruditionem classicam carentibus, aut quia talia verba in sermonibus familiaribus eo tempore minime adhibebantur. Ita sermo mythistoriae valde differt a stilo hodierno Iaponico; grammatica etiam linguae mediaevalis Iaponicae in multis rebus a moderna discrepat.

Origo et fortuna 
Gesta Genji iam exstabat, sed incompleta, anno 1008; eo fere anno (si ephemeridi scriptricis credimus) ipsa a familiaribus "Murasaki" cognominata est ex appellatione personae cuiusdam femininae Genji amasiae. Ante annum 1021 completa est; domina enim Sarashina eo anno, secundum ephemeridem suam, de adquisitionem exemplaris mythistoriae gaudet, capitula plura quam quinquaginta comprehendentis. Sed an mythistoria tota a Murasaki scripta sit, haud liquet.

Editiones 
 Editio Iaponica anni 1654 in 54 volumina divisa cum commentario (3 voll.), stemmate, continuatione et indice Textus interretialis apud Bibliothecam Congressus

Versiones 
 Versio Suematsu Textus interretialis apud gutenberg.org
 Versio Seidensticker Textus interretialis imperfectus

Notae

Bibliographia 
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 Murase, Miyeko (1983). Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji monogatari ekotoba. New York: Weatherhill
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 Okada, H. Richard (1991). Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in the Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts. Durham: Duke University Press
 Pekarik, Andrew (1982). Ukifune : Love in the Tale of Genji. New York: Columbia University Press
 Puette, William J (1983). Guide to the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle
 Rowley, Gillian Gaye (2000). Yosano Akiko and the Tale of Genji. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
 Seidensticker, Edward G. (1976). The Tale of Genji. 1. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-4-8053-0919-3
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 Shirane, Haruo (1987). The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the Tale of Genji. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press
 Shirane, Haruo (2008). Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press
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 Tyler, Royall (1999). "'I Am I': Genji and Murasaki". Monumenta Nipponica 54(4): 435–480
 Tyler, Royall (2001). The Tale of Genji. New York: Viking
 Tyler, Royall (March 2002). "Marriage, Rank and Rape in The Tale of Genji". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 7 
 Tyler, Royall and Susan (2002). "The Possession of Ukifune". Asiatica Venetiana 5: 177–209
 Tyler, Royall (2003). "Rivalry, Triumph, Folly, Revenge: A Plot Line through the Tale of Genji". Journal of Japanese Studies 29(2): 251–87
 Ury, Marian (1988). "A Heian Note on the Supernatural". Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 22(2): 189–94
 Yoda, Tomiko (December 1999). "Fractured Dialogues: Mono no aware and Poetic Communication in the Tale of Genji". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59(2): 523–57

Nexus externi 

 Versiones Iaponicae originalis, recensa, translitterata apud bibliothecam Universitatis Virginiae
 Versio illuminatas imperfecta saeculi XVIII apud bibliothecam Collegii Dartmuthensis
 Illuminationes nonnullae
 Stemma personarum
 Versio audibilis Iaponica capitulorum septem
 Picturae nonnullae
 Kunisada II- Illuminationes apud universitatem Albertensem
 Epitome studentibus destinata

Litterae Iaponicae
Iaponiae scripta
Scripta saeculo 11
Mythistoriae