Genji
The problem with Genji's mother
She was of no particular rank but the Emperor had an unreasonable passion for her
Diary by the author of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu Nikki
The poetic syallabic form of renga
5-7-5 / 7-7
Contains a kana preface by Ki no Tsurayuki
Kokinshū
Written around 909, it is called the "parent of the monogatari" in the Tale of Genji
Taketori Monogatari / Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The place of Genji's self-imposed exile
Suma
Written by a man but in the style of a woman
Tosa Nikki
Identify the utamakura:
Fair Yoshino, mountains/now wrapped in mist/to the village where snow/was falling/spring has come
Yoshino
Written in Chinese characters that are read in Japanese
Man'yōshū
The one uta-monogatari we have read
Ise Monogatari / Tales of Ise
Genji's relationship to the Suzaku emperor
Half brother
Only diary that does not take place at court
Kagerō nikki
Identify the makurakotoba:
Haru sugite/natsu ki ni kerashi/shirotae no/koromo hosu chō/ Ama no Kaguyama
Spring has passed, /summer really has come. /Pure white /robes are drying, – /Heavenly Mount Kagu.
shirotae no / pure white
Most famous anthology of the Kamakura period
Shinkokinshū
Fill in the blank:
"A preacher ought to be _______"
good-looking!
The woman whose relationship with Genji drives him to exile
Oborozukiyo
Diary by a fiction-obsessed woman
Sarashina Nikki
identify the kakekotoba(s)
hana no iro wa/utsurinikeri na/itazura ni/wa ga mi yo ni furu/nagame seshi ma ni
Colour of the flowers/has faded/in vain/my time has gone, while I was /gazing deep in thought, as long rains kept falling.
furu (fall, grow old, passing of time) and nagame (gazing, long rains)
Anthology edited by Fujiwara no Teika (among others)
Shinkokinshū
The item Kaguya-hime receives that enables her to return to heaven.
The Celestial Robe of Feathers
The historical figure Genji is thought to be based on
Minamoto Takaakira
Only once described as diary, usually called a monogatari
Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Identify the mitate:
should I pluck the drops of dew/to thread as jewels/they'd vanish;/best see them as they are,/set on boughs of clover
drops of dew seens as jewels
Poet with the largest number of poems in the Shinkokinshū
Saigyō
Presumed subject or main character of Ise Monogatari
Ariwara no Narihira