The Tale of Genji and the Japanese: A Story of a Female Awakening

"The Tale of Genji", which was born in the Heian period a thousand years ago, is a well-known classical literature in Japan, and its status is just like "A Dream of Red Mansions" in China.
Appreciation and analysis of "The Tale of Genji" has always revolved around the protagonist Genji, focusing on its literary and historical value, or appreciating the poems and characters in the book.

Genji is the "perfect man" in the eyes of the world: appearance, talent, power and status, and love between wives and concubines are all available, but as a psychologist, Hayao Kawai feels that the male protagonist full of aura has no sense of existence (unlike real people) ). He discussed from the psychological motivation of the author Murasaki Shikibu: Murasaki Shikibu wrote this novel to tell his own story, created many female characters in order to show the various aspects of his heart, and in order to make the story have an axis, and The character of Genji was designed to play.