‘A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan’ by Paul Gordon Schalow (Review) (opens in new tab)

After a rather lean blogging month in May, I’m hoping to get things back on track in June, and that includes cracking on with my chapter-by-chapter journey through The Tale of Genji. Before that, though, perhaps as a kind of warm-up, I’m taking a look at an academic work that explores a particular feature of […]