Winter sessions |
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| Session | Date | Chapters assigned | Assignment details (page totals approximate) | ✧ Session content ✦ Broad characterization of chapters assigned |
| Session 1 | Oct 12 | ✧ Introductory lecture | ||
| Session 2 | Oct 19 | 1 - 5 | 110 pages | ✦ The situation into which Genji is born and Genji’s first loves |
| Session 3 | Oct 26 | 6 - 11 | 116 pages | ✦ Genji’s further youthful affairs |
| Session 4 | Nov 2 | 12 - 16 | 92 pages | ✦ Genji’s exile and return |
| Session 5 | Nov 23 | 17 - 21 | 86 pages | ✦ Genji’s burgeoning political power |
| Session 6 | Nov 30 | 22 - 31 | 140 pages *tough assigment in that it is the holidays |
✧ Consideration of everything read up through this day ✦ the “Tamakazura chapters”, the peak of Genji’s career |
Spring sessions |
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| Session | Date | Chapters assigned | Assignment details (page totals approximate) | ✧ Session content ✦ Broad characterization of chapters assigned |
| Session 7 | Jan 25 | ✧ Detailed review of the story as a refresher and for those just joining the series | ||
| Session 8 | Feb 1 | 32 - 35 | 128 pages *tough assignment because of 34 & 35 |
✦ karmic retribution and increasing introversion in Genji |
| Session 9 | Feb 8 | 36 - 41 | 110 pages | ✦ cont. |
| Session 10 | Feb 15 | 42 - 44 | 44 pages | ✦ the situation after Genji’s passing |
| Session 11 | Feb 22 | 45 - 49 | 146 pages | ✦ the first half of the “Uji chapters”, the Uji sisters |
| Session 12 | March 1 | 50 - 54 | 151 pages | ✧ Final considerations ✦ the second half of the “Uji chapters”, Ukifune |