This article is about the Japanese era named Genji. Genji is also the name of the main character inThe Tale of Genji. The Minamoto clan were also sometimes known as the Genji.
Genji (元治) was a Japanese era after Bunkyū and before Keiō, and spanned from March 27, 1864 to April 30, 1865. The reigning emperor was Kōmei.
Change of Era
Due to the beginning of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, on March 27, Bunkyū 4 (1864), the era became Genji ("Original Rule").
Genji Monogatari (源氏物語), frequently translated as The Tale of Genji, is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century, around the peak of the Heian period.
Genji was the second son of a certain ancient emperor and his concubine whose rank was not so high.
Edward Seidensticker, who made the second translation of the Genji, believed that it was not finished, and that Murasaki Shikibu did not have a planned story structure with an "ending" and would simply have gone on writing as long as she could.
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