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

Foreword......Page 7
An overview of the essays......Page 9
Genji’s rise and the collapse of his world......Page 10
Reader orientations and incommensurable views......Page 14
Genji’s position in the tale......Page 15
Reflections on Part Three......Page 16
Genji and Murasaki: Between Love and Pride......Page 23
Perceptions of Murasaki......Page 25
Jealousy and self-affirmation......Page 26
The child Murasaki......Page 28
Murasaki’s marriage......Page 31
The crisis over Akashi......Page 33
Asagao: the question of Genji’s motive......Page 35
Asagao: the scene between Genji and Murasaki......Page 42
Suzaku’s daughter: preliminary remarks......Page 45
The Third Princess and Murasaki......Page 47
Decorum and discretion concerning Genji’s motives......Page 48
Suzaku’s daughter: Genji’s motive......Page 50
Murasaki’s initial reaction......Page 52
Murasaki wishes to become a nun......Page 54
Murasaki asks again to leave the world......Page 56
Murasaki’s illness......Page 60
The possession......Page 62
Murasaki’s death......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 66
Genji and Suzaku (1): The Disaster of the Third Princess......Page 71
Genji and Suzaku......Page 72
Genji’s destiny......Page 75
The Kiritsubo Emperor’s silence......Page 77
The will of Sumiyoshi......Page 79
Boundaries and sexual transgression: patterns of great success......Page 85
Genji’s flaw, Rokujō’s anger......Page 87
The course of the narrative......Page 89
The significance of Possessions One and Two......Page 93
Suzaku’s fate......Page 96
A glance back over Parts One and Two......Page 97
Part Three: the gloom of Uji......Page 98
Kaoru’s burden of karma......Page 101
Ukifune’s reputation......Page 105
Ukifune’s journey to the Uji Villa......Page 107
The spirit......Page 111
The exorcism......Page 117
The idea of an imperial curse......Page 119
Suzaku’s “little grudge”......Page 121
Ukifune deranged......Page 123
The Sōzu’s fall......Page 130
The ending......Page 131
Beyond the ending......Page 132
Conclusion: Ukifune and the author......Page 135
Genji and the Luck of the Sea......Page 139
The Sumiyoshi Shrine......Page 141
A first glimpse of Akashi......Page 142
The storm at Suma......Page 145
The Novice’s prayers to Sumiyoshi......Page 148
The Sumiyoshi Shrine and Jingū Kōgō......Page 150
Genji as a “king from outside”......Page 154
The Yasoshima matsuri......Page 155
Genji’s sovereignty......Page 159
Genji and Suzaku......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 163
Pity Poor Kaoru......Page 165
From Genji to Kaoru......Page 167
Surrogates and idols......Page 168
Pity poor Kaoru......Page 173
Kaoru and Ōigimi......Page 180
Kaoru and Nakanokimi (1)......Page 182
Kaoru and Nakanokimi (2)......Page 183
The journey to Uji......Page 185
Eros and piety......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 191
Two introductory examples......Page 193
Yume no Ukihashi in Hamamatsu......Page 195
Yume no ukihashi in the Genji commentaries......Page 197
Closing reflections on yume no ukihashi......Page 200
Ukifune and Asukai......Page 201
Ukifune’s disappearance......Page 202
Asukai’s disappearance......Page 203
Ukifune’s jusui in the commentaries......Page 205
Ukifune’s jusui in modern times......Page 208
Concluding reflections on the case of Asukai......Page 210
Sagoromo’s enthronement......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 216
Men wish a man were a woman......Page 217
Women wish a male were female......Page 220
The hypothesis of imperial beauty......Page 221
The watching man adopts a woman’s gaze......Page 223
Women see the man as a woman more beautiful than any woman......Page 224
Men admiring a man......Page 225
Further reflections on the feminine veil in erotic scenes......Page 229
Distribution of the feminine veil outside and inside Genji......Page 233
Abbreviations......Page 237
Works cited......Page 239