Saga's grandson, Minamoto no Tōru, is thought to be an inspiration for the protagonist of the novel The Tale of Genji.

Three late tenth century and early eleventh century women presented their views of life and romance at the Heian court in Kagerō Nikki (" The Gossamer Years ") by " the mother of Michitsuna ", Makura no Sōshi ( The Pillow Book ) by Sei Shōnagon, and Genji Monogatari ( Tale of Genji ) by Murasaki Shikibu ( herself a Fujiwara ).

* The Tale of Genji ( 1966 )

Under influence from other genres such as kanshi, Chinese poetry, novels and stories such as Tale of Genji and even Western poetry, it has developed gradually, broadening its repertoire of expression and topics.

# Early and Heian Literature ( Kojiki to past The Tale of Genji to 1185 )

Untied: Love Poems from the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

* 1001 – 1008: Japanese Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes The Tale of Genji

* 1021 – Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes her Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji.

* Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese ( approximate date ).

Writing in A Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of " The Tale of Genji ", Shirane mentions that 1014 is generally accepted as the date of Murasaki Shikibu's death and 973 as the date of her birth, making her 41 when she died.

Three works are attributed to Murasaki: The Tale of Genji, The Diary of Lady Murasaki and Poetic Memoirs, a collection of 128 poems.

Murasaki is best known for her The Tale of Genji, a three-part novel spanning 1100 pages and 54 chapters, that is thought to have taken a decade to complete.

Late 17th c. or early 18th c. silk scroll painting of a scene from chapter 34 of Tale of Genji showing men playing in the garden watched by a woman sitting behind a screen.

Helen McCullough describes Murasaki's writing as of universal appeal and believes The Tale of Genji " transcends both its genre and age.

The Tale of Genji was copied and illustrated in various forms as early as a century after Murasaki's death.

The Tale of Genji became a favorite subject of Japanese woodblock artists for centuries with artists such as Hiroshige, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro illustrating various editions of the novel.

In Envisioning the " Tale of Genji " Shirane observes that " The Tale of Genji has become many things to many different audiences through many different media over a thousand years ... unmatched by any other Japanese text or artifact.

The Tale of the Genji is recognized as an enduring classic.

" Keene writes that The Tale of Genji continues to captivate, because, in the story, her characters and their concerns are universal.

Kyoto held a year-long celebration commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Genji in 2008, with poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera ( where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed ), and women dressing in traditional 12-layered Heian court and ankle-length hair wigs.

Might and Magic is considered one of the defining examples of early PC role-playing games, along with the Bard's Tale, Ultima and Wizardry series.

In these articles, Adorno championed avant-garde music at the same time as he critiqued the failings of musical modernity, as in the case of Stravinsky ’ s The Soldier ’ s Tale, which he called in 1923 a “ dismal Bohemian prank .” In these early writings, he was unequivocal in his condemnation of performances which either sought or pretended to achieve a transcendence which Adorno, in line with many intellectuals of the time, regarded as impossible: “ No cathedral ,” he wrote, “ can be built if no community desires one .” In the summer of 1924, Adorno received his doctorate with a study of Edmund Husserl under the direction of the unorthodox neo-Kantian Hans Cornelius.

According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.

The concept of wolf-riding Orcs first appears in The Tale of Tinúviel, an early version of the story of Beren and Lúthien written in the 1920s, posthumously published as part of The History of Middle-earth.

An early version of Appendix B (" The Tale of Years ") had him leading Dwarves from the ruin of Beleriand to found Khazad-dûm at the beginning of the Second Age ; but Tolkien abandoned that line.

However early in The Winter's Tale the royal heir, Mamillius, warns that " a sad tale's best for winter ".

The Tale of Taliesin ( Hanes Taliesin or Ystoria Taliesin ) is a genuine legendary story about Taliesin which is preserved in two principal redactions dating from the mid-16th century and the early 17th century but which probably derives from older sources.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

The town's early history was captured in Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood by Pulitzer-winning author Marquis James, who recounts his boyhood in Enid.

The 10th century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, can be considered an early example of proto-science fiction.

The word " create " appeared in English as early as the 14th century, notably in Chaucer, to indicate divine creation ( in The Parson's Tale ).

As aforestated, non-genuine folktales are those already committed to writing long ago, the earliest being the tale of Princess Kaguya ( or The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ), an example of monogatari type of romance dated to as early as the 10th century, though extant manuscripts are much later.

The Genpei War is also the subject of the early Japanese epic The Tale of the Heike ( Heike Monogatari ).

This story is told in the early Japanese epic, The Tale of the Heike ( Heike Monogatari ).

Severed hands in an occult context occur as early as Herodotus's " Tale of Rhampsinitus " ( ii, 121 ), in which a clever thief leaves a dead hand behind in order to avoid capture, or in early stories of lycanthropy, such as Henry Boguet's Discours exécrable de sorciers in 1590.

As early as the late fourteenth century, in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the character Harry Bailey interrupts the unendurable Tale of Sir Topas, calling it " rhyme doggerel ":

She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for Napple Tale, a Dreamcast game.

The tradition that Langland was a Wycliffite, an idea promoted by Robert Crowley's 1550 edition of Piers and complicated by early Lollard appropriation of the Plowman-figure ( see, for instance, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and The Plowman's Tale ), is almost certainly incorrect.

It includes early drafts of the novel's Prologue and the appendices on languages, family trees, and calendars, as well as the history of the Akallabêth, " The Tale of Years " ( chronologies of the Second and Third Ages ), the heirs of Elendil, and the making of Appendix A.

The 11th Century Belarusian Prince Usiaslau of Polatsk was considered to have been a Werewolf, capable of moving at superhuman speeds, as recounted in The Tale of Igor's Campaign: " Vseslav the prince judged men ; as prince, he ruled towns ; but at night he prowled in the guise of a wolf.

More detailed traditions of Taliesin's biography arose in the Welsh Middle Ages, from about the 11th century, and in Historia Taliesin (" The Tale of Taliesin ", surviving from the 16th century ).

* Lew Wallace, 11th governor of New Mexico Territory, Union general in the American Civil War, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

In Genji Monogatari ( 源氏物語, The Tale of Genji ), written in the early 11th century, men are frequently moved by the beauty of youths.

The Pillow Book and Tale of Genji, from the early 11th century, provide us with examples of the life of aristocrats in the court of Emperor Ichijō and his empresses.

The most famous Spring Palace is the fictional one described in the early 11th century novel-romance, The Tale of Genji.

The Tale of Genji, written in 11th century Japan, has often been considered the first psychological novel.

The first references are found in 11th century prose text Qalandarname ( The Tale of the Kalandar ) attributed to Ansarī Harawī.

In 2004 " Kazuhito Yamashita ＋ bambini " was founded by Kazuhito, his two daughters and elder son, for the risorgimento of a quintessential and older musical tradition ( This recalls a bygone era of both the East and the West when such music was known and valued and whose echoes can still be heard in the classic 11th century novel " The Tale of Genji ") by performing original pieces written for them by Keiko Fujiie, based on her Oriental view of the world.