Dennis Washburn
Dartmouth College
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Footnotes
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* For a more complete account of the assumptions that guided Suematsu and the criticisms of his translation see Patrick Caddeau, Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai , Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006, pp. 148-154.
* For a full account of Waley’s life, his works, and his literary connections, see John Walter de Gruchy’s fascinating study Orienting Arthur Waley: Japonism, Orientalism, and the Creation of Japanese Literature in English , Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003.
* Arthur Waley, “Introduction,” The Bridge of Dreams , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933, pp. 22-23.
* Arthur Waley, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon , London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957, pp. 9-11.
† Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” in Collected Essays, vol. 1, London: Hogarth, 1966, p. 320.