Designing a Knowledge Graph Focusing on the RelationshipsBetween Characters in The Tale of Genji

Abstract

The Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji), written during the Heian period, is often referred to as the "world's oldest long romance novel" and features around 400 characters. However, due to the cultural practice of referring to characters by their roles or titles rather than by specific names, this creates challenges in the analysis of characters and content in Japanese classical literature. Therefore, this study aims to comprehensively identify the conditions for addressing each character and proposes a knowledge graph. Additionally, the relationships between characters, based on the knowledge graph, will be represented, and the usefulness of this approach will be evaluated.