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Categorization is odious. There is tremendous overlap among genres. These pigeonholes are offered only as a convenience.

Shikibu Murasaki

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Please consider recommending where to begin reading this author, or where not to. A few words about your experiences reading this author and why you make the recommendations you do will be helpful to other users. If you are the author or have studied this author extensively, please say so.

hanmeng February 6th, 2006 04:24 AM PST

Several translations are available: the two relatively recent ones by Edward G. Seidensticker and the newest by Royall Tyler. It might be best to start with an abridged translation.

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c.978?1031?, Japanese novelist, court figure at the height of the Heian period (795?1185).
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