An Interactive Map to The Tale of Genji
Key:
Gray: visited by a character or characters in prose text
Blue: mentioned in poetry, an utamakura/meisho
Yellow: mentioned in prose text
Check mark: A real, extant location (i.e. Kiyomizu-Dera)
X mark: A real, non-extant location (i.e. Suzaku Palace)
Circle: A region, not a specific point (i.e. Miyagino)
Book: A fictional, Genji specific location (i.e. Genji's Nijō Estate)
? mark: A fictional or poetic place name that I took an educated guess at locating (i.e. Okinaga River)
Click on location for more information including: other names, where it's mentioned in the text, and my research notes!
Gray: visited by a character or characters in prose text
Blue: mentioned in poetry, an utamakura/meisho
Yellow: mentioned in prose text
Check mark: A real, extant location (i.e. Kiyomizu-Dera)
X mark: A real, non-extant location (i.e. Suzaku Palace)
Circle: A region, not a specific point (i.e. Miyagino)
Book: A fictional, Genji specific location (i.e. Genji's Nijō Estate)
? mark: A fictional or poetic place name that I took an educated guess at locating (i.e. Okinaga River)
Click on location for more information including: other names, where it's mentioned in the text, and my research notes!
The shapefiles for the old provinces are from Harvard’s China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) and are being used under an academic non-commercial use license.