GENJI MONOGATARI AND BAI JUYI'S Allegorical Poems

It has been well known that Bai Juyi's writings influenced the classical Japanese novel Genji Monogatari.According to researches,there are Allegorical Poems,Pathos Poems,and rules and forms of classical poems.It is difficult to learn the phenomenon of literariness which Murasaki Shikibu accepted the influence of Bai Juyi's poems,because the political nature of these poems is different from the idea of the classical Japanese aesthetics.Indeed,Murasaki Shikibu was attracted by the artistry of these poems and learned much from it.Following the establishment of the cultural characteristic,the great novel was born.