During the late Edo period, contrary to the popular Chinese literature in those days, cheap novels such as "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The tale of Genji in the Muromachi period)" (by Tanehiko RYUTEI) were written, which was turned into Kabuki, and a lot of 'Genjie paintings' (a kind of ukiyoe) were made, thus triggering the boom, but they soon disappeared with the emergence of the Tempo reforms.
江戸時代後期には、当時の中国文学の流行に逆らう形で、設定を室町時代に置き換えた通俗小説ともいうべき『偐紫田舎源氏』（柳亭種彦著）が書き起こされ、「源氏絵」（浮世絵の一ジャンル）が数多く作られたり歌舞伎化されるなど世に一大ブームを起こしたが、天保の改革であえなく断絶した。