Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to reconsider the work of Murakami and Imanishi（1999） about “the Tale of Genji ”. In Murakami and Imanishi（1999）, they divided “the Tale of Genji ” into four groups and led the suggestive results on how “the Tale of Genji” was written, based on the plot of Hayashi's Quantification Method Ⅲ . However, applying cluster analysis to their plot, the present author cannot obtain the same result as dendrogram. Therefore, utilizing variance stabilizing transformation to their data and applying cluster analysis to those, the obtained dendrogram indicates that this result is consistent with the previous studies and more careful with respect to statistics. For future research, combining philological knowledge and statistical approach, those complementary researches will matter.
