I started reading The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (1987) by Norma Field. It's academic, footnoted. I looked up Norma Field , she was born in Japan to an American father and Japanese mother. At age 10 she went to the American school in Tokyo and after graduating high school, she moved to America. After a series of degrees she ends up teaching at the University of Chicago , from which she is retired from. She is the same age as my mother, who was also born in Japan, during the occupation to 2 Americans. Field won the American Book Award in 1992 for In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End. Links: YouTube Field talks about America's ignorance about the impact of the atomic remedy. I'm listening to The Tale of Genji on The History of Literature . It's a general introduction.