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The Funeral of a Great Mother
The story of Japan’s first great classic Genji continues with the funeral of Genji’s mother.
If you will recall Genji is the son of the Emperor of Japan (his favourite to be precise), with the boy having had a low-born mother, so that she was hounded to death by her love-rivals from the Imperial harem.
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