The sacred tree
Murasaki Shikibu
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Murasaki Shikibu · 19 chapters
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- Literary English
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- Advanced vocabulary
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GENJI is an illegitimate son of the Emperor; his mother dies soon after his birth.
Utsusemi is carried away to the provinces by her husband; Yūgao dies, withered by the virulence of Rokujō’s jealousy.
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- PREFACESample
- SUMMARY OF VOLUME ONE
- Fiction in Japan Previous to “The Tale of Genji”
- The Art of Murasaki
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- Chapter X. THE SACRED TREE
- Chapter XI. THE VILLAGE OF FALLING FLOWERS
- Chapter XII. EXILE AT SUMA
- Chapter XIII. AKASHI
- Chapter XIV. THE FLOOD GAUGE
- Chapter XV. THE PALACE IN THE TANGLED WOODS
- Chapter XVI. A MEETING AT THE FRONTIER
- Chapter XVII. THE PICTURE COMPETITION
- Chapter XVIII. THE WIND IN THE PINE-TREES