Tomehane! - Vol. 10 Ch. 122 - The Tale of Genji
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Hahaha, I have a copy of the Waley translation of the Tale of Genji myself, but it didn't vibe with me, the hump of him being down bad for various women in the beginning couple hundred pages was too high for me to get over. I'm kinda surprised they'd have it at a school across the pond from Japan, though I suppose plot.
IMO If they had said something like one of Haruki Murakami's works (Who has worldwide appeal), Dazai's "No Longer Human", or Sōseki's "Kokoro" being in a school library, I'd definitely find it more believable then the ~1200 page Tale.
IMO If they had said something like one of Haruki Murakami's works (Who has worldwide appeal), Dazai's "No Longer Human", or Sōseki's "Kokoro" being in a school library, I'd definitely find it more believable then the ~1200 page Tale.
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The title page of the chapter is a good summary of the relationship between Mochizuki and Oe-kun: he's shy and is more "passive", yet they're close to each other and have fun.
(I also like the detail that Mochizuki does practice judo a lot, even if she's a "prodigy", she has to work to become better! Very true to life.)
I like Grandma, she's just great. How nice to have her around! Oe-kun is super cute in this chapter too~ all in all great, thanks for the translation!
@ocsibrm I agree that it's not the most probable, but at the same time I remember seeing mostly old copies of very classical books from foreign cultures in remote school libraries in my country (France), so it would not be that surprising. The Tale of Genji is an old book, so it would make sense a rural middle school would only have this as a text of Japanese origin. Not highly probable, but credible imo!
(I also like the detail that Mochizuki does practice judo a lot, even if she's a "prodigy", she has to work to become better! Very true to life.)
I like Grandma, she's just great. How nice to have her around! Oe-kun is super cute in this chapter too~ all in all great, thanks for the translation!
@ocsibrm I agree that it's not the most probable, but at the same time I remember seeing mostly old copies of very classical books from foreign cultures in remote school libraries in my country (France), so it would not be that surprising. The Tale of Genji is an old book, so it would make sense a rural middle school would only have this as a text of Japanese origin. Not highly probable, but credible imo!
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Gotta say Tale of Genji is more credible than Murakami. I vaguely remember seeing excerpts from Genji in some of my (US) literature textbooks. We also had a copy of the English translation floating around the library. (Murakami was not so easy to find, and def wasn't recommended for middle school... The only high school students who read him were AP kids. Dazai and Soseki, I am sorry to say, I only heard about via manga.)
It's nice to live in an era where more is being translated than just Tale of Genji, though.
It's nice to live in an era where more is being translated than just Tale of Genji, though.
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