He became romantically involved with many women despite his marriage to an older woman named Aoi no Ue (with whom he shared little in common).
The jealousy and hostility his mother faced each day rapidly ate away at her health and she soon passed, leaving the emperor heartbroken and Genji at the mercy of the court.Īs prophesied, Genji grew into a brilliant, beautiful young man.
His name was Genji, and he was the son of an emperor and his favorite-but low-ranking-concubine. There once was a boy born into what may have been the most unfortunate of fortunate circumstances. As the titular character, Genji is given the bulk of the novel’s attention with the lives of his lady involvements following close after in focus. The novel's fifty-four chapters cover about seventy-five years beginning with the birth of Genji, the hero, and ending after his death. Among her contemporaries, The Tale of Genji was immensely popular and had a large following consisting mostly of other ladies-in-waiting. Her life in high society lends the novel a distinctly aristocratic color largely set in the mansions and great gardens of Kyoto (the then-capital of Japan), the novel details the passions and troubles of Heian court. by a noblewoman known today as Murasaki Shikibu. Considered the world’s first true novel, The Tale of Genji was written just after 1000 A.D.
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