The Disaster of the Third Princess: Essays on The Tale of Genji

Tyler, Ralph W.

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“…To say yes would be unworthy of her; to say no would put Genji, and thus herself, in a difficult position; and to say either would compromise her by demonstrating that she does know what he is talking about." Her complete innocence demonstrates her supreme worth [21]. The affection is unstoppable, so she finally accepts.…”

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“…Despite the obsession, she is always afraid of her affair with Genji known by all people in the court. Although there was not "any unreasonable insistence on purity, virginity, and so on", Lady Rokujo values her reputation a lot under the restricted aristocracy dominant institution [21]. After all, the consequence of the spreading affair can hurt her more, while Genji will not be blamed.…”

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Feminine Writing of Murasaki Shikibu and in The Tale of Genji

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Murasaki Shikibu is one of the most famous court lady writers, or Feminine Hand, in Heian Japan. Her work The Tale of Genji, usually interpreted as revealing womens sufferings, needs an alternative explanation with a new eye. That is, a feminist voice must exist at that time, as well as unconscious feminist awareness. They have already begun to explore love, desire, and pleasure for themselves. They were even eager to express themselves in their language system, and, most importantly, they were successful in doing it. Helen Cixouss ricture Fminine theory from The Laugh of Medusa provides a new lens to look through Murasakis era and the Genji. Indeed, Murasaki can be regarded as a medieval feminist who voiced her thoughts on gender inequality in a new language system. The characters she created are individualized rather than generalized. Murasaki, a representative of many other female writers, heralded an era of female writing and entered the canon of world literature: use her body to write and never stop exploring womens own galaxy.

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Feminine Writing of Murasaki Shikibu and in The Tale of Genji

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“… 20 For instance, in the “Hahakigi” and “Utsusemi” chapters of Genji , the hero “lies down” with the younger brother of his love interest, Lady Utsusemi. In this context, scholars rightly interpret Genji's intimacy with the boy as homoerotic because of the age gap (Bargen 2015, 113; Tyler 2009, 222). In an archetypal chigo monogatari , too, the teenage acolyte's suitor is a monk in his late twenties or early thirties.…”

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The Erotic Family: Structures and Narratives of Milk Kinship in Premodern Japanese Tales

Schmidt-Hori¹

2021

J of Asian Stud

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This essay proposes that “milk kinship,” which upper-class individuals in premodern Japan formed with their milk kin—a menoto (wet nurse) and a menotogo (foster sibling)—occupies the core of an institutionalized erotic fosterage. In this “menoto system,” the surrogate mother's lactating body and erotic-affective labor became the connective tissue to bind two interclass families, creating a symbiosis that fortified the existing sociopolitical power structures. Around the tenth century, many vernacular tales started to feature menoto characters. While a typical menoto is the protagonist's homely, asexual, motherly confidante, her derivative construct—the menotogo of the protagonist—is often cast in an erotic light. In the four texts examined in this essay, menotogo valorize their erotic agencies to benefit their charges through sexual-affective labor or through an indirect method. The latter entails the formation of a “love square” in which two menotogo become lovers and then help their respective charges do the same.

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The Disaster of the Third Princess: Essays on The Tale of Genji

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Feminine Writing of Murasaki Shikibu and in The Tale of Genji

Feminine Writing of Murasaki Shikibu and in The Tale of Genji

The Erotic Family: Structures and Narratives of Milk Kinship in Premodern Japanese Tales

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