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Close-up on purple-reddish blooms and blue flowers of the Murasaki flower or purple gromwell. Murasaki no Ue's name remains a pseudonym, as due to court manners of the author's time (the Heian period, 794–1185), it was considered unacceptably familiar and vulgar to freely address people by either their personal or family names; within the novel, the character herself, too, is unnamed, as ...
Even a Replica Can Fall in Love (レプリカだって、恋をする。, Repurika Datte, Koi o Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Harunadon and illustrated by raemz. It began publication under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint in February 2023.
The Third Princess, a character from The Tale of Genji (ukiyo-e by Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766). The characters of The Tale of Genji do not possess birth names. Instead they are assigned sobriquets derived from poetic exchanges (e.g. Murasaki takes her name from a poem by Genji), from the particular court positions they occupy (in the Tyler translation, characters are often referred to by such ...
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.
Murasaki no Ue was the daughter of the Imperial Prince Hyobukyo no Miya and the niece of Empress Consort Fujitsubo. 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 ...
Lady Rokujō's spirit is so humiliated she possesses Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki falls ill. Genji asks a buddhist clergy, Shintō deities (also known as Kami) of the native lands, and foreign Buddhas for help to perform an exorcism, but they are unsuccessful. After several weeks, Lady Rokujō's possession causes Lady Murasaki to stop breathing.
Replica Datte, Koi wo Suru. (originally Doppelgänger wa koi o suru) Harunadon Miri wa Neko no Hitomi no Naka ni Sundeiru Shiki Taiga Kuse Tsuyo i Shuzoku de Gyōretsu ga Dekiru Kekkonsōdansho ~Kanban Neko Musume wa Kawaī dake ja Tsutomaranai~ (originally Marīhausu ni Yōkoso ~Fantajī Sekai no Kekkonsōdansho~)
Fujitsubo's importance in the tale lies beyond her immediate contribution to the plot, in what Norma Field termed as being an "original substitute": she makes her debut as a substitute for Kiritsubo, yet Genji will later look for substitutes for Fujitsubo in women such as Utsusemi, the Third Princess, and especially Murasaki no Ue.