is a Japanese

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

version of

Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of '' The Tale of Genji,'' widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between abou ...

's '' The Tale of Genji'' by

Miyako Maki is a Japanese manga artist, and one of the earliest female manga artists. During the 1960s, Maki contributed significantly to the development of ''shōjo'' manga (manga for girls), and became one of the most popular ''shōjo'' authors of her gen ...

. In 1989, it received the 34th

Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being ...

for general manga.

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*Maki Miyako volume 1 Shogakukan 1997/11/17ISBN 4091912117 *Maki Miyako volume 2 Shogakukan 1998/01/17 *Maki Miyako volume 3 Shogakukan 1998/01/17 *Maki Miyako volume 4 Shogakukan 1998/02/17 *Maki Miyako volume 5 Shogakukan 1998/02/17 *Maki Miyako volume 6 Shogakukan 1998/04/17
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Shogakukan Online Manga based on novels Shogakukan manga Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga manga maki {{manga-stub

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