The Evil Spirit in The Tale of Genji

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.191217.229How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Tale of Genji, evil spirit, Lady Rokujo

Abstract

Based on the investigation of the distribution of “evil spirit” and “ghost” in the book, the paper is aimed to investigate “evil spirit” in The Tale of Genji. For this reason, first of all, it is necessary to find out all the use cases of “evil spirit” and “ghosts”. Through the analysis, it can be found that the appearance of “evil spirit” in The Tale of Genji is regular. In the fifty-four chapters of the book, from “Yuugao” of the fourth chapter to “Yumenoukihasi” of the final chapter, “evil spirit” appears in the beginning, middle and end of the full text in a form closely related to the structure of the full text. It can be concluded that “evil spirit” is one of the themes throughout the story. In the full text, there are the most use cases about Lady Rokujo, which is described as the representative use cases of “evil spirit” in The Tale of Genji. Lady Rokujo was deeply loved by Genji. But she incarnated as living beings before death and become evil spirit after death. She hated and cursed the women around Genji and controlled his life, which was very impressive image who influenced the fate of Genji.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huixin Sun
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - The Evil Spirit in The Tale of Genji
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 749
EP  - 752
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.229
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.229
ID  - Sun2020
ER  -