Tale of Genji Flashcards
1
Q
The flower that puzzled you was but the yugao, strange beyond knowing in its dress of shining dew
A
-poem on the white fan
2
Q
ukon
A
yugao’s servant
3
Q
lady rukojo
A
genjis mistress
4
Q
lady rukojo
A
- genjis mistress
- wife
- daughter of left minister
5
Q
koremitsu
A
genjis servent
- son of nurse
- foster brother
6
Q
yugao
A
- evening face/glory
- pure white
- blooms at night (like their romance)
7
Q
how does yugao die
A
-demon comes and takes her soul
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8
Q
yugao (flower)
A
- evening faces
- pure white
- blooms at night die in morning (like their romance)
9
Q
how does yugao die
A
- demon comes and takes her soul
- rokujo is the person who haunted and killed yugao
10
Q
genji
A
- son of emperor
- his mom was not high status
- he was Married to daughter of left minister
- hikari (light) genji
- genjis mother is not wife
- fortune teller told emperor that genji should like ordinary
- his mom was haunted and died at 3 years old
11
Q
wet nurse
A
- wanted to see genji before she became a nun
- not lower class
12
Q
To No Chujos
A
- yugao had a child with this captain (prince genji best friend/brother in law)
- yugao ran away bc To No Chujos’s wife threatened yugao
13
Q
yugao
A
- high middle class
- she doesnt tell genji so that To No Chujo will not find her
14
Q
shinto
A
- blesses
- exorcises spirit (okiyome)
- flower is appreciated- kami
- when his father wanted to see him genji couldn’t because he said someone died while visiting his wet nurse (128) -> impure
- emperor says prayers for genji
15
Q
confucianism
A
- court meetings in the great hall with certain formalities
- parent child relationship
- koremitsu and genji- servant master
- rokujo and genji- husband wife
