Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (10th and 11th Century)

“The letters worth reading are those sent when the writer was angry, or when dusk was falling and she anxiously awaited her lover’s coming.”

  • From Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji (chapter 2), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

 

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