1. The Tale of Genji and the Dynamics of Cultural Production: Canonization and Popularization / Haruo Shirane

Part I - The Late Heian and Medieval Periods: Court Culture, Gender, and Representation

2. Figure and Facture in the Genji Scrolls: Text, Calligraphy, Paper, and Painting / Yukio Lippit

3. The Tale of Genji and the Development of Female-Spirit No / Reiko Yamanaka

4. Monochromatic Genji: The Hakubyo Tradition and Female Commentarial Culture / Melissa McCormick

5. Genre Trouble: Medieval Commentaries and Canonization of the Tale of Genji / Lewis Cook

Part II - The Edo Period: Warrior Society, Education, and Popular Culture

6. Didactic Readings of The Tale of Genji: Politics and Women's Education / Haruki II

7. Genji Picture from Momoyama Painting to Edo Ukiyo-e: Cultural Authority and New Horizons / Keiko Nakamachi

8. The Splendor of Hybridity: Image and Text in Ryutei Tanehiko's Inaka Genji / Michael Emmerich

Part III - The Meiji, Taisho, and Prewar Showa Periods: National Literature, World Literature, and Imperial japan

9. The Tale of Genji, National Literature, Language, and Modernism / Tomi Suzuki

10. Wartime Japan, the Imperial Line, and The Tale of Genji / Masaaki Kobayashi

Part IV - The Postwar Showa and Heisei Periods: Visuality, Sexuality, and Mass Culture

11. The Tale of Genji in Postwar Film: Emperor, Aestheticism, and the Erotic / Kazuhiro Tateishi

12. Sexuality, Gender, and The Tale of Genji in Modern Japanese Translations and Manga / Yuika Kitamura