Indeed, Waley's stature in Japan is such that Heibonsha, another publisher, recently released a retranslation of Waley's "Genji" back into Japanese.

事实上，韦利的这部译作所达到的水准使得另一个出版商---平凡社在最近发行了韦利版《源氏物语》的日译本。

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“Even in the modern-language versions of ‘Genji’, the majority of Japanese readers don’t make it much past the opening chapters,” explains Takao Hoshina, an editor at Heibonsha.

编辑Takao Hoshina坦言，“哪怕现代版，大部分读者都不太跳过开篇章节了。

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