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21594620 No.21594620 [Reply] [Original]

It's a little weird the author named a character after herself who is a child bride to the main character.

>> No.21594624

>It's a little weird the author named a character after herself who is a child bride to the main character.


THE ETERNAL «PURITAN»...

>> No.21594814
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Genji visits Kitayama, a rural hilly area north 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 like the Lady Fujitsubo, who is his womanly ideal.

>> No.21595563

>>21594620
Assuming this isn’t bait, Murasaki wasn’t the author’s real name. People started to call her Murasaki (in her lifetime even) after the character she wrote. The better question is: Who was in the wrong here?
>Sei Shonagon… was dreadfully conceited. She thought herself so clever and littered her writings with Chinese characters; but if you examined them closely, they left a great deal to be desired. Those who think of themselves of being superior to everyone else in this way will inevitably suffer and come to a bad end, and people who have become so precious that they go out of their way to try and be sensitive in the most unpromising situations, trying to capture every moment of interest, however slight, are bound to look ridiculous and superficial. How can the future turn out well for them?

>> No.21595670

>>21594620
>Genji visits Kitayama, a rural hilly area north 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 like the Lady Fujitsubo, who is his womanly ideal.
Uh, problematic?

>> No.21595693
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>the chapter where Genji becomes a shotacon after getting cockblocked

>> No.21595695

>>21594620
Is this where the inspiration for the genji armor in final fantasy comes from?

>> No.21596006

>>21595695
/v/ please leave...

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>>21595563
Pillow Book is more interesting from the view of posterity