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| Product DescriptionThe Tale of Genji, a classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978-1026), explores the complexities of elite society in eleventh-century Japan through the life of Prince Genji, a member of the imperial court. Among the many artistic adaptations of this work is an exquisite album held by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Created in Japan during the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, this album is unusual in its inclusion of poems praising the Confucian virtues. Confucianism began in China with the teachings of Kongzi, often referred to as Confucius (551-479 BC); transmitted to Japan during the Edo period, the philosophy was used by the ruling shogunate to promote societal harmony and order.
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