Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: The accenting of the Japanese names is not consistent throughout the book. The accents are preserved as given in the book. Japanese Literature INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM GENJI MONOGATARI AND CLASSICAL POETRY AND DRAMA OF JAPAN WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY EPIPHANIUS WILSON, A.M. REVISED EDITION COPYRIGHT, 1900 BY THE COLONIAL PRESS * * * * * CONTENTS GENJI MONOGATARI Introduction CHAPTER I.--The Chamber of Kiri II.--The Broom-like Tree III.--Beautiful Cicada IV.--Evening Glory V.--Young Violet VI.--Saffron Flower VII.--Maple Fete VIII.--Flower-Feast IX.--Hollyhock X.--Divine Tree XI.--Villa of Falling Flowers XII.--Exile at Suma XIII.--Exile at Akashi XIV.--The Beacon XV.--Overgrown Mugwort XVI.--Barrier House XVII.--Competitive Show of Pictures CLASSICAL POETRY OF JAPAN Introduction BALLADS-- The Fisher-Boy Urashima On Seeing a Dead Body The Maiden of Unahi The Grave of the Maiden of Unahi The Maiden of Katsushika The Beggar's Complaint A Soldier's Regrets on Leaving Home LOVE SONGS-- On Beholding the Mountain Love is Pain Hitomaro to His Mistress No Tidings Homeward The Maiden and the Dog Love is All Husband and Wife He Comes Not He and She The Pearls A Damsel Crossing a Bridge Secret Love The Omen A Maiden's Lament Rain and Snow Mount Mikash Evening ELEGIES-- On the Death of the Mikado Tenji On the Death of the Poet's Mistress Elegy on the Poet's Wife On the Death of Prince Hinami On the Death of the Nun Riguwan On the Poet's Son, Furubi Short Stanza on the Same Occasion MISCELLANEOUS POEMS-- View from Mount Kago The Mikado's Bow Spring and Autumn Spring Recollections of My Children The Brook of Hatsuse Lines to a Friend A Very Ancient Ode The Bridge to Heaven Ode to the Cuckoo The Ascent of Mount Tsukuba Couplet SHORT STANZAS THE DRAMA OF JAPAN Nakamitsu Abstraction * * * * * GENJI MONOGATARI BY MURASAKI SHIKIB [_Translated into English by Suyematz Kenchio_] INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR