I got these really amazing bookmarks as a souvenir of my trip to Kamakura. From the Kamakura Station, we asked the volunteer tour guides for directions to the Kamakura Daibutsu and they instructed to take this long street lined with interesting shops and restaurants that are hard to resist! As a self-confessed geek, I am collecting bookmarks from my trips. More so, being a Japanese history geek and a literature junkie, this set of bookmarks literally made me swoon!
The Tale of Genji or Genji no Monogatari is considered as the oldest novel in the world. It was written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century and it survived the centuries from then. The story revolves around the life of the protagonist Hikaru Genji, son of the Emperor and his favorite concubine, Lady Kiritsubo. The novel tells about the intriguing political life in the Japanese court and the complex nature of love and relationships in the Heian Period.
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