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Melissa McCormick, “The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion” (Princeton UP, 2018)

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Episode • Jul 17, 2019 • 54m
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist. In The Tale of Genji. A Visual Companion, published by Princeton University Press in 2018, Melissa McCormick discusses all of the fifty-four paintings by Tosa Mitsunobu and calligraphies in the album, thus providing a...

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