"MURASAKISIKIBUNIKKI" does not merely ends with the records of the affluent and glorious lives of Empress SHYOSHl and MICHNAGA, but, as I intend ro show it here, in deep down it fundamentally carries the serious and enc.lless questions on the truth ab...
"MURASAKISIKIBUNIKKI" does not merely ends with the records of the affluent and glorious lives of Empress SHYOSHl and MICHNAGA, but, as I intend ro show it here, in deep down it fundamentally carries the serious and enc.lless questions on the truth about the real lives of women and about rhe new love that had come upon her as a NYOBO.
The songs of "MURASAKISIKIBUSHYU" strongly support this. Most of the songs are of the confession of her life, bur it is also interesting to notice that some expressions she used, by introducing the position(opinion) of a third party, arc aimed at the dramatic effect of drawing rhe three-party positions(opinions) into one, namely, the position of MURASAKISIKIBU herself, and those of the third parry and the readers'. The past researches sometimes claim that understanding the trends and meaning of the songs of this kind is the most difficult part in "MURASAKISIKIBU SHYU', but, on the other hand, one can say this is the area where you can appreciate MURASAKISIKIBU skills as a MONOGATARI writer.
In her "MURASAKISIKIBUSHYU' has songs that you Gm extract from, the life of a woman who once had young days with full of ideal thoughts and then slowly encounters the reality of the life as she gets older.
It shows the passion and pride she had grown in her inner life, irrelevant to the external limitation that surrounds her coming from her social status.
Of all, one can see from the context where she meets MICHINAGA, MURASAKISIKIBU, who had a strong self~esteem, was in love at her own perfectly tree will within the world of her inner mind. But she could not easily let the world know of her love for MICHINAGA, not only because of the big social status gap between the two, but also because of her "Giri" to RINSHI, which was a great burden to her.
But the emotion was stronger than the rationalism. It may be difficult in the real life, but within the frame of her own emotional world that only she could set by keeping a certain distance from the real world she was able tu love at her own free will. One shall see that "MURASAKISIKIBUNIKKJ'' and MURASAKISIKIBUSHYU" are the collection of confessions of her secrets hidden beneath her life about her love that she had grown ar her own will and with self-esteem, bur withour acnmlly unveiling the secrets themselves.