ABSTRACT
Under him all high offices were filled by Fujiwara men and all the Empresses were Fujiwara ladies, usually the regent's own daughters. Maids of honor and ladies-in-waiting were other Fujiwara ladies of lower rank. One of these court ladies has given us a remarkable picture of the times in a novel which she wrote in her spare hours, depicting the life around her. It is called the Genji Managatari, or Tale af Genji;l translated into English in recent years, by Mr. Arthur Waley of the British Museum, this work has been pronounced by modern critics one of the world's literary masterpIeces.
