2009 Annual Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture “The Honor of Translating the Tale of Genji”

2009 Annual Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture “The Honor of Translating the Tale of Genji”

April 22nd, 2009

6:00 PM
2009 Annual Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
“The Honor of Translating the Tale of Genji”
Royall Tyler
Location: Miller Theater

The 2008-2009 academic year marks the one-thousandth anniversary of that remarkable classic of Japanese literature, Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji. In order to commemorate the occasion, the Keene Center has invited the renowned Genji scholar and most recent translator of that work into English, Dr. Royall Tyler, to deliver this year’s Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture.

* Reservations are required. RSVP by April 15th by email ( dcc2119@columbia.edu ) or by fax (212-854-4019).

See more about this event here.

 
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