Q&A with the Curator: Who’s Genji?
Our current exhibit Genji’s World Through Japanese Woodblock Prints is open and ready for your visit, but some of you may be wondering – Who is Genji? We sat down with Curator of Collections, Veljko Dujin, to answer just that, and some of those other burning questions you might want answers to before visiting us. Here’s what we learned: Who is/was Genji? Prince Genji, also known as Hikaru Genji, or the Shining Prince Genji, was the fictitious son of an Emperor and his favorite concubine. Ever since Murasaki Shikibu wrote the novel …