Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: How a bad translation was made

Thankfully there are now much better translations of Genji available in English. But if you ever want to write a bad translation of a classic novel and shoot for some sort of literary prize to honor your achievement, this will clearly be a book to imitate. I agree with the other reviewer that it would have been nice for Seidensticker to explain how he chose certain words, but it's not clear that he made a close examination of Japanese interpretations in the first place.