The Tale of Genji- A Visual Companion
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Ukifune ( Genji character): attempted suicide, 227, 230, 234;
entendre, 142; homophones, 47, 90, 127, 166; letter/
independence or autonomy of, 219, 234–35, 239; Niou and,
footprint, 206–7
226–27; religious vows of, 234–35; as substitute for Oigimi,
219; and writing practice, 234–35
Yadoriki (Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy , Genji), 216–19
Ukon ( Genji character), 110–11, 230
Yokawa, Bishop of, 234–35, 238
umbrellas, 83
Yokobue (The Transverse Flute , Genji), 168–71
Umegae (A Branch of Plum , Genji), 148–51
Yomogiu (A Ruined Villa of Tangled Gardens , Genji), 80–83
Umetsubo Consort or Empress ( Genji character), 90–91, 106,
Yotsutsuji Yoshinari, 8
118, 126, 154, 199
Yūgao, Lady of the Evening Faces ( Genji character), 38–39, 46,
Usugumo (Thin Veil of Clouds , Genji), 96–99
110, 119, 127, 223
Utsusemi ( Genji character), 30, 34–35, 39, 86–87, 130
Yūgao (Lady of the Evening Faces , Genji), 36–39
Utsusemi (Molted Cicada Shell , Genji), 32–35
Yūgiri (Evening Mist, Genji), 176–79
Yūgiri (Genji character): Aoi as mother of, 58, 142; as central
violets (sumire), 215
character, 134–35, 179, 190–91; and death of Ōmiya, 142;
visual emphasis: gold clouds and, 15, 135, 138, 194–95, 207; size
depiction of, 126–27, 154–55, 175; and infatuation with
related to centrality of character, 10, 138, 179
Murasaki, 134–35; and Kashiwagi, 158, 166–67, 171; marriage
to Kumoinokari, 154–55, 179; and Ochiba, 166–67, 178–79,
A Waka Anthology (Cranston), ix
190–91; as problematic romantic hero, 179; prophecy
Wakamurasaki (Little Purple Gromwell , Genji), 40–43
concerning, 78–79; and pursuit of Tamakazura, 142–43; at
wa-kan aesthetics (Chinese cultural infl uences), 8
Rokujo estate, 106–7, 111, 126–27, 131; and Rokunokimi, 190,
Wakana ge (Early Spring Greens II , Genji), 160–63
219; voyeurism and, 107, 134–35
Wakana jō (Early Spring Greens I , Genji), 156–59
Yume no ukihashi (A Floating Bridge in a Dream, Genji),
waka poetry, 1–2, 7–8, 235, ix
236–39
warblers, 114–15, 151, 194
Washburn, Dennis, 203, 219, ix
zekku poetry, 94
water plants (ayamegusa), 123
zuryō (provincial governing class), 223
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Image Credits
© Idemitsu Museum of Arts: p. 13, fi g. 9; p. 155, ref. fi g, Ch. 33.
Reproduced f rom auction catalog Kōshaku Hachisuka-ke gozōhin nyūsatsu (Tokyo: Tōkyō
Bijutsu Kurabu, 1933): p. 111, ref. fi g., Ch. 22.
© The Museum Yamato Bunkakan: p. 4, fi g. 3.
© The Tale of Genji Museum: p. 106, ref. fi g., Ch. 21.
© Tenri Central Library: p. 12, fi g. 8.
© The Tokugawa Art Museum, Image Archives/DNPartcom: p. 3, fi g. 2.
© The Tokyo National Museum, Image Archives/DNPartcom: p. 14, fi g. 10.
All other fi gures f rom Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College The Tale of Genji Album, 1510. Paintings by Tosa Mitsunobu (except for Ch. 52, anonymous, Edo period, 1615–1868). Calligraphy by Kunitaka Shinnō (1456–1532) (Chs. 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, 33, 39, 45, 51); Konoe Hisamichi (1472–1544) (Chs. 2, 8, 14, 20, 26, 32, 38, 44, 50); Sanjōnishi Sanetaka (1455–1537) (Chs. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 31, 37, 43, 49); Jōhōji Kōjo (1453–1538) (Chaps. 4, 10, 16, 22, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54); Reizei Tamehiro (1450–1526) (Chs. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 35, 41, 47, 53); Son’o Jugō (d. 1514) (Chs. 6, 12, 18, 24, 28, 34, 40, 46, 52). Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia, 1985.352.
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