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A pictorial subject taken from "The Ivy" Yadorigi, Chapter 49 of GENJI MONOGATARI Ή¨κ (The Tale of Genji). In the chapter, Prince Niou *Niou no miya υ{ marries Roku no kimi ZN, daughter of *Yuugiri [Ά, much to the regret of his first wife Naka no kimi N (see *Sawarabi n). Kaoru O, in turn, continues to make advances toward Naka no kimi, because her older sister Ooigimi εN (see *Agemaki p) who is now dead, was the unrequited love of his life. Rejecting him, Naka no kimi tells him of a half-sister *Ukifune M, who also resembles the late Ooigimi. After being married to the reigning emperor's second daughter Onna Ni no Miya ρ{, Kaoru returns to Uji F‘ and sees Ukifune for the first time. Scenes chosen for illustration include: Kaoru playing a game of go ι with the emperor who obliquely offers him the hand of his daughter; Kaoru, about to go by carriage to visit Naka no kimi, standing in his garden where morning glories asagao ©η and maiden flowers nadeshiko q are blooming; Niou playing a lute biwa ϊi beside the pregnant Naka no kimi, who leans against an armrest and likens her half-abandoned state to the autumn grasses in the garden below. Three scenes from this chapter, the go game between Kaoru and the Emperor, Niou and Roku no kimi on the third morning after consummating their marriage, and Niou playing a lute beside Naka no kimi, are found in the earliest extant illustrated version (12c) preserved by the Tokugawa Ώμ Art Museum in Aichi prefecture. |
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