Word: handwritten
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication as we know it was unknown in 1000 A. D., even in Japan. The earliest Genji texts are a series of handwritten rolls prepared for great families; the first printed edition dates to 1650, of which the British Museum has a copy. Numerous succeeding editions have appeared, for Genji occupies a place among Japanese classics not unlike Chaucer's place in English...