KYOTO--The last half of what is regarded as Japan’s first imported novel has gone on display here ... poetry anthology and ‘Genji Monogatari’ (The Tale of Genji). It was long popular among ...

Let’s rewind to the 11th century. The first novel The Tale of The Genji was penned by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu. Maya highlights that the author wrote in Japanese, even as Mandarin ruled the ...