Stuck

The suspense is killing me. I have been leaping through all the Genji material that I have in my room searching for a decent topic to write about. It should not be this hard! I originally wanted to do something about the food in the Heian era that related to Genji. The fact that eating was rarely mentioned in the 1000+ page novel struck me as interesting. I simply could not find any information about the typical diet of aristocrats, on or off the internet. Then I stumbled upon a more interesting topic, smells. 1000 years ago bathing was not done very often, so people often smelled horrible. People who could would make their own incenses and perfumes to cover up the nasty bodily smell. Half of a chapter in Genji is devoted to an incense making contest which shows just how much it mattered to "not smell bad". The only question is can I find enough resources to make a paper about this...