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New SSRN paper:
“Name Is All That Matters”: The Tale of Genji and the Birth of the Samurai Order

Why has The Tale of Genji lasted 1,000 years? Not as a love story, but as material for shaping an early prototype of Bushidō.

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6004954

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"Name is all that Matters": The Tale of Genji and the Birth of the Samurai Order

The Tale of Genji is often introduced today as a thousand-year-old "court romance," Japan's greatest love story. This paper starts from a different qu

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Toshisada Utsunomiya Jan 2

For a more personal note on how The Tale of Genji has lived inside my family for about a thousand years, I wrote this earlier piece:
https://godspeed2u.vivaldi.net/2025/02/20/the-tale-of-genji-and-me/

“The Tale of Genji” and Me

When I was young, my grandmother and father taught me a daily value: “Do not behave in such a way that others would point at you behind your back.” “Do not do anything that would become the subject of…

To You, 2.4 Million Years Ahead.