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The Tale of Genji
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Categories: words and feelings
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Set in the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan, The Tale of Genji depicts the corrupt politics of the society, the lecherous life, the mutual rivalry and power struggle among the upper nobility at that time through the life experience and love story of the protagonist, Genji, while Genji's love marriage reveals the tragic fate of women under polygamy. In aristocratic society, male marriages were often a means of political struggle, and women...