A Six-Foot Sickbed on The Tale of Genji: “Scholars of Japanese literature and native learning have devoted themselves mainly to studying The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book and the like, and, dismissing everything from the Tokugawa period on as vulgar, they ignore it, so they know nothing of three hundred years of recent literature. [auto-translated]”
A New Life on The Murasaki Shikibu Diary: “The mademoiselle, a pure Frenchwoman who had gone to Japan out of love for it and now lived in Tokyo, could already speak a good deal of Japanese and read something like Murasaki Shikibu's diary. [auto-translated]”