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Explore 1 work originally written in Classical Japanese, led by The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.
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Start with The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, ranked #134 in the Canon Compass list.
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Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji: the world's first novel. Love, beauty, and impermanence in Heian Japan, written a thousand years ago.