kashihagi
かしはぎChapter: 36Age: Age 48, New Year-AutumnMain character: Genji
Onna San no Miya gives birth to a boy, Kaoru, while Kashiwagi, crushed by guilt and dread of Genji, dies in despair. Overwhelmed by shame, Onna San no Miya takes vows under Suzaku's guidance. Genji cradles Kaoru at his fifty-day celebration, weeping over the inescapable wheel of karma. Meanwhile, Yugiri, entrusted with Kashiwagi's affairs, begins to fall in love with his friend's grieving widow, Ochiba no Miya.
Scenes
- 1The gravely ill Kashiwagi has Koshosho hold up a lamp; the Third Princess comes down from her sickbed to receive him, and Genji talks with them.
- 2Emperor Suzaku visits the Third Princess at Rokujo-in; she comes down from her sickbed to receive him, and Genji talks with them as well.
- 3Yugiri visits the ill Kashiwagi; Kashiwagi entrusts him with his affairs.
- 4On the fiftieth-day celebration of the young lord (Kaoru), Genji holds the infant and muses; the Third Princess, in nun's habit, is beyond a screen.
- 5On a spring day Yugiri visits the late Kashiwagi's wife, the Lady Ochiba, at Ichijo Palace, talks with her mother, and weeping, wipes his tears and blows his nose.
Illustrated scrolls depicting "kashihagi"
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