Playing Waka in 'The Tale of Genji': Fuji no Uraba 13, Suma (4) — The Wish for Restoration Entrusted to 'A Body Without Clouds'

Is Suma a story of 'oblivion'?Last time, I interpreted the waka of Suma from the perspective of 'oblivion.'Suma, far away ...

The Tale of the Heike and Poetic Justice (1) (2022)

When I was a high school senior, I was obsessed with reading Yasunari Kawabata, so I remember feeling relieved when I learned that Kawabata did not think highly of The Tale of the Heike. I, too, was ...