The tale of Genji and the dynamics of cultural production: canonization and popularization / Haruo Shirane -- The late Heian and medieval periods: court culture, gender, and representation -- Figure and facture in the Genji scrolls: text, calligraphy, paper, and painting / Yukio Lippit -- The Tale of Genji and the development of female-spirit nō / Reiko Yamanaka -- Monochromatic Genji: the hakubyō tradition and female commentarial culture / Melissa McCormick -- Genre trouble: medieval commentaries and canonization of The tale of Genji / Lewis Cook -- The Edo period: warrior society, education, and popular culture -- Didactic readings of The tale of Genji: politics and women's education / Haruki Ii -- Genji pictures from Momoyama painting to Edo ukiyo-e : cultural authority and new horizons / Keiko Nakamachi -- The splendor of hybridity: image and text in Ryūtei Tanehiko's Inaka Genji / Michael Emmerich -- The Meiji, Taishō, and prewar Shōwa periods: national literature, world literature, and imperial Japan -- The tale of Genji, national literature, language, and modernism / Tomi Suzuki -- Wartime Japan, the Imperial line, and The tale of Genji / Masaaki Kobayashi -- The postwar Shōwa and Heisei periods: visuality, sexuality, and mass culture -- The tale of Genji in postwar film: empeor, aestheticism, and the erotic / Kazuhiro Tateishi -- Sexuality, gender, and The tale of Genji in modern Japanese translations and manga / Yuika Kitamura.