![]() To her surprise, she enjoys a few years of quietude and continues writing the Genji stories, which have begun to circulate and win appreciation. But the pair are separated, and Murasaki finally accedes to marriage to Nobutaka. When Murasaki's family is transferred to the distant province of Echizen, she falls in love with a Chinese ambassador's son. ![]() Murasaki resists this match, as Nobutaka is much older, and with her girlhood friend she has invented an ideal, ""imaginary lover,"" the shining Prince Genji. ![]() Instead, she is betrothed to Nobutaka, a relative and family friend. writing."" The young Murasaki dreams of serving as a lady-in-waiting at the empress's court, but her father is a humble scholar, a position that doesn't merit such honors for his children. Posed as a series of reminiscences discovered after Murasaki's death by her grown daughter, Katako, the novel reveals the mind of a writer who believed that she could ""shape reality by. Perfectly capturing the sensual mood of its model, The Tale of Genji, this imagined memoir of Murasaki Shikibu-the author of the 11th-century Japanese masterpiece heralded as the world's first novel-sensitively renders Murasaki's inner life and her times in Miyako (ancient Kyoto). ![]()
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