Gallery
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In the The Tale of Genji, Murasaki described court life, as depicted in this exterior scene titled "Royal Outing", late 16th century by Tosa Mitsuyoshi.
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Hiroshige ukiyo-e, (1852), shows an interior court scene from The Tale of Genji.
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In this c. 1795 woodcut, Murasaki is shown in discussion with five male court poets.
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“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
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