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The Tale of Genji Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. He is the son of an ancient Japanese emperor, known to readers as Emperor Kiritsubo, and a low-ranking, but beloved concubine called Lady Kiritsubo. For political reasons, the emperor removes Genji from the line of succession, demoting him to a commoner by giving him the surname Minamoto, and he pursues a career as an imperial officer.
The tale concentrates on Genji's romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time. Genji's mother dies when he is three years old, and the Emperor cannot forget her. The Emperor Kiritsubo then hears of a woman Lady Fujitsubo , formerly a princess of the preceding emperor, who resembles his deceased concubine, and later she becomes one of his wives.
Genji loves her first as a stepmother, but later as a woman, and they fall in love with each other. Genji is frustrated by his forbidden love for the Lady Fujitsubo and is on bad terms with his wife Aoi no Ue. He engages in a series of unfulfilling love affairs with other women, but in most cases his advances are rebuffed, his lover dies suddenly during the affair, or he becomes bored with his lover.
Genji visits Kitayama, the northern rural hilly area of Kyoto, where he finds a beautiful ten-year-old girl. He is fascinated by this little girl Murasaki , and discovers that she is a niece of the Lady Fujitsubo. Finally he kidnaps her, brings her to his own palace and educates her to be his ideal lady — that is, like the Lady Fujitsubo.
During this time Genji also meets the Lady Fujitsubo secretly, and she bears his son, Reizei. Everyone except the two lovers believes the father of the child is the Emperor Kiritsubo. Genji and his wife, Lady Aoi, reconcile.
The novel was written in old archaic language and a poetic style but is very confusing and is unreadable to common Japanese people without any complex study. In the 20 th century, Genji was translated into modern Japanese by Akiko Yosano. In the novel was translated into the English language but it was incomplete and of poor quality. The novel revolves around the story of Hikaru Genji who was the son of the Japanese emperor. Because of some reasons, his father removed him from his line of succession by giving him a surname of Minamoto and he served as an imperial officer.
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