Post by Ishikawa Ayame on Feb 17, 2009 16:33:16 GMT -5
I just saw the newest Renaissance Magazine and there is an... interesting article.
(copied from www.renaissancemagazine.com/highlights65.html)
Tale of Genji: The Japanese Lancelot
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and later England, had a profound influence on English and French literature. But we discover something incredible 150 years before Eleanor was holding court in France, the Japanese were producing an astonishingly similar literature.
(copied from www.renaissancemagazine.com/highlights65.html)
Tale of Genji: The Japanese Lancelot
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and later England, had a profound influence on English and French literature. But we discover something incredible 150 years before Eleanor was holding court in France, the Japanese were producing an astonishingly similar literature.