NMLP P-045746 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu (trans. Arthur Waley) · George Allen & Unwin, London (Waley translation; original is an 11th-century manuscript) · 1925

The work's original is an early-11th-century Japanese manuscript with no printed 'first edition'; the collectible first is Arthur Waley's English translation, issued in six volumes by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1925–1933: The Tale of Genji

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045746 for "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu (trans. Arthur Waley) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045746, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).