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Aoi no Ue is the Senior Minister of State family's daughter and Hikaru Genji's formal wife. She was seriously ill and possessed by a phantom which was caused by Hikaru Genji's first lover Rokujō. While her family struggled to recover her and attempted various cures, nothing was able to bring her back to normal.
Hikaru Genji was born the second son of Emperor Kiritsubo (桐壺帝) by his lower ranked consort, Kiritsubo no Koi (桐壺更衣). Genji had peerless beauty and genius, even from infancy, and was nicknamed "the Shining Prince". His mother died when he was only three years old.
Prince Genji (Hikaru Genji/ the Shining Genji/ the Shining Prince) – The eponymous hero of the tale, he is the son of an emperor (usually referred to as Kiritsubo Emperor) and of a low-ranking imperial concubine (known to readers as Lady Kiritsubo or Kiritsubo Kōi). Many scholars have tried to decipher the real or fictional model behind the ...
Lord Genji first met her when she was 12 years old. Eventually, he married her, and she came to be known as Murasaki no Ue (Lady Murasaki). Aoi no ue Aoi no Ue was the daughter of the Minister of the Left and the first wife of Hikaru Genji. She was four years older than Genji and was originally raised to marry the next emperor.
The work recounts the life of Hikaru Genji, or "Shining Genji". Genji is the son of the emperor (known to readers as Emperor Kiritsubo) and a low-ranking concubine called Kiritsubo Consort , but for political reasons the emperor removes Genji from the line of succession, demoting him to commoner status by giving him the surname Minamoto .
Aoi no Ue (能 葵上, Lady Aoi) is a Muromachi period Japanese Noh play based on the character Lady Aoi from the Heian period novel The Tale of Genji. It is an example of the fourth category of "miscellaneous" Noh plays. Aoi no Ue was the first of many Noh plays based on The Tale of Genji. [1]
He is the son of the protagonist of the first two acts, Hikaru Genji's wife, "Third Princess" (known as "Onna san no miya" in the Seidensticker version, or "Nyōsan" in Waley's), and Genji's nephew Kashiwagi. Kaoru is known to the world as Genji's son even though he was in fact fathered by Genji's nephew.
She is a mistress of the novel's protagonist, Hikaru Genji, with whom she becomes infatuated and jealous of his other lovers. Her jealousy subconsciously causes her ikiryō (wandering spirit) to become a Shiryo (also known as a Yūrei ) that attacks and murders multiple other mistresses and wives of Genji .