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English: Not only was the Empress's seasonal reading of the sutra held there every spring and autumn ('Kocho'), the young Princess Akashi's coming-of-age ceremony also took place in this quarter (the 'Umegae' (The Plum Tree Branch) chapter).
Japanese: 春と秋には中宮主催の季の御読経が催された（「胡蝶」）ほか、明石の姫君の裳着もここで行われた（「梅枝」）。
English: When Princess Akashi gave birth to her first child, she moved there due to katatagae, a practice where people avoided traveling in directions considered to be unlucky ('Wakana' (Spring Shoots), part 1).
Japanese: 明石女御の最初の出産に際して、女御は方違えでここに移った（「若菜(源氏物語)・上」）。
English: Reproductions of the Rokujo estate include those by Takuya TAMAGAMI (with the cooperation of The Obayashi corporation), Seiroku OTA and Kozo IKE.
Japanese: 六条院の再現については、玉上琢弥案（大林組協力）、太田静六案、池浩三案などがある。
English: In addition, a one-fourth scale model of the Rokujo estate spring quarter's main hall and east wing (supervised by Kozo IKE) is exhibited at the Costume Museum and a one-hundredth scale model of the whole Rokujo estate is exhibited at the Tale of Genji Museum.
Japanese: また風俗博物館で六条院の春の町の寝殿と東対の4分の1模型（池浩三監修）を、源氏物語ミュージアムで六条院全体の100分の1模型を公開している。
English: Okuiri is a commentary on the Tale of Genji written by FUJIWARA no Sadaie.
Japanese: 奥入（おくいり）とは、藤原定家によって著された源氏物語の注釈書である。
English: It is the next oldest commentary on the Tale of Genji after the 'Genji Shaku,' which is considered to be the oldest, and was later recognized for its importance.
Japanese: 源氏物語の注釈書としては最古とされる「源氏釈」に次いで古いものであり、後世重要視された。
English: Originally, FUJIWARA no Sadaie added various notes to the end of the text of the Tale of Genji manuscript that he himself had copied as a shohon (a verified text).
Japanese: もともと藤原定家は証本として自ら作成した源氏物語の写本の本文の末尾にさまざまな注釈を書き付けている。
English: Kikan IKEDA mentions that when judging whether a manuscript of the Tale of Genji is an Aobyoshi-bon manuscript, those that are descended from FUJIWARA no Sadaie's shohon, it is a requirement for the manuscript to have this 'Okuiri' in it.
Japanese: 池田亀鑑は源氏物語の写本にこの「奥入」があるかどうかを写本が藤原定家の証本の流れを汲む青表紙本であるかどうかを判断する条件に挙げている。
English: When FUJIWARA no Sadaie lent a manuscript to someone, those annotations were copied and spread in public without his permission, and on top of that, some people criticized his opinions.
Japanese: 藤原定家が写本を貸し出した際にこれらの注釈を勝手に書き写されて世間に流れ出し、さらにその見解に対して批判を加えられたりした。
English: There are two types of Okuiri, 'the first Okuiri' (the first version) that was written in the Oshima-bon and the Meiyurinmo-bon manuscripts, and 'the second Okuiri' (the second version) that was included in Sadaie's own hand-written manuscript.
Japanese: 奥入には大島本や明融臨模本に書かれている「第一次奥入」（第一次本）と定家自筆本に書かれている「第二次奥入」（第二次本）とがある。
English: As to which version was the earlier one, some theories say that the first version came into existence earlier and others that the second version was actually written first.
Japanese: どちらが先に成立したのかについては第一次本を先とする説と第二次本を先とする説の両方がある。
English: In Okuiri, he regards the earlier commentary, the 'Genji Shaku,' as important, and quotes a lot of opinions from it in many sections.
Japanese: 奥入では先行する注釈である「源氏釈」を重要視しており、多くの項目でその見解を引用している。
English: He follows the opinions of the Genji Shaku in many cases, but not all the time.
Japanese: 源氏釈の見解にそのまま従っていることが多いがすべて従っているわけではない。
English: Nihon bungaku (Japanese literature) refers either to literary works written in Japanese or to the academic field that studies such works and their authors.
Japanese: 日本文学（にほんぶんがく）とは、日本語で書かれた文学作品、もしくはそれらの作品や作家を研究する学問のこと。
English: There are various theories about how to define Japanese literature, and many factors are considered, such as language, the area of publication, and literary form.
Japanese: 日本文学の定義を何に求めるかについては諸説あり、言語、発表された地域、文学の形式など多くの要素が考えられる。
English: (Recently some people are calling this literature nihongo bungaku (literally, literature written in Japanese) due to the fact that in some cases the author's nationality or place of residence does not correspond to the language used, such as with foreign writers who write works in Japanese.)
Japanese: （近年は外国籍作家が日本語作品を書く例など国籍や居住地と言語とが一致しない場合もあることを考慮し、日本語文学という呼称が使われることもある）。
English: Although paying attention to changes in political power is not always considered to be as suitable as it is for history, it is often used as a reference point.
Japanese: 歴史学のように政権の移動に注目することが必ずしもふさわしいとは考えられないが、目安にされることが多い。
English: In addition, there are some scholars who differ on opinions about the categories of Jodai (until the Nara period), Chuko (in and around the Heian period), medieval, early modern, modern, and present, and in some cases Chuko is not used at all.
Japanese: また、上代・中古・中世・近世・近現代という区分けには研究者によって異論もあり、中古を設定しない場合もある。
English: Chinese characters were imported from the Chinese continent by way of the Korean peninsula, and people started to use Chinese prose and Manyo-gana (a form of syllabary used in the Manyo-shu or Collection of Myriad Leaves), which fitted Chinese characters to their own spoken language.
Japanese: 中国大陸から朝鮮半島を経由して漢字が輸入され、漢文と、自分たちの話し言葉に漢字を当てはめた万葉仮名が使われるようになった。
English: History books such as the "Kojiki" (Records of Ancient Matters, written 712 C.E.) and the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan, written 720 C.E.) and collections of poems such as the "Manyoshu" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) were produced.
Japanese: 『古事記』（７１２年）『日本書紀』（７２０年）のような史書や、『万葉集』のような歌集が生まれた。
English: While Chinese prose and poetry continued to thrive, the first of the Chokusen wakashu (anthologies of waka poetry compiled by Imperial command), the Kokin wakashu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems), was compiled and waka poems achieved a status equal to that of Chinese poems.
Japanese: 漢詩・漢文が引き続き栄えるとともに、初の勅撰和歌集である古今和歌集が編纂され、和歌が漢詩と対等の位置を占めた。
English: Although the official documents during this period continued to be written in Chinese prose, expressing things in Early Middle Japanese, using hiragana, started to become popular.
Japanese: 当時の公式文書は漢文であったが、平仮名の中古日本語による表現が盛んにはじまった。
English: During this period, works that can be said to be representative of Japanese classical literature were written, starting with the "Tosa Nikki" (The Tosa Diary) written by KI no Tsurayuki, then the miscellaneous compositions of "Makura no soshi" (the Pillow Book) by Sei Shonagon, as well as "Genji Monogatari" (The Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu.
Japanese: 紀貫之の『土佐日記』が書かれたのに続き、清少納言の随筆『枕草子』、紫式部の『源氏物語』など古典文学の代表作と言える作品が著された。
English: The "Shin Kokin wakashu" (New Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry), which is characterized by the elaborate techniques used, was compiled by FUJIWARA no Sadaie and other poets.
Japanese: 藤原定家らによって華麗な技巧に特徴がある『新古今和歌集』が編まれた。
English: Also, many works were written using a style that mixed Japanese and Chinese words, which can be said to be the direct predecessor of the modern Japanese language.
Japanese: また、現代日本語の直系の祖先と言える和漢混淆文によって多くの作品が書かれた。
English: With the opening of Japan to the world, the influx of Western civilization gave rise to a movement to Westernize Japan, and Japanese literature was also affected dramatically.
Japanese: 開国とともに西欧の文明が流入し文明開化が起こると、日本文学も大きな影響を受けた。
English: The idea of the modern Western novel was imported into Japan and modern Japanese literature essentially began with works such as Shoyo TSUBOUCHI's "Shosetsu shinzui" (The essence of the novel), FUTABATEI Shimei's "Shosetsu soron" (General theory of the novel) and "Ukigumo" (the drifting cloud).
Japanese: 西欧近代小説の理念が輸入され、坪内逍遥の『小説神髄』、二葉亭四迷の『小説総論』『浮雲(二葉亭四迷)』などによって実質的に近代の日本文学が出発した。
English: Japanese literature has deep connections with the establishment of modern literature in China and Korea due to some of the founders of modern literature in those countries having come from among Chinese and Korean students who had studied in Japan during the Meiji period.
Japanese: 明治時代の日本への中国人・韓国人留学生の中から文学の担い手が生まれたことにより、日本文学は近代文学としての中国文学・朝鮮文学の成立に深く関わっている。
English: It eventually came to attract the attention of foreign scholars, and Japanese literature, from classical literature to the modern, was widely made an object of study.
Japanese: やがて外国の研究者の注目も集めるようになり、古典から現代文学まで幅広く研究対象になった。
English: In the late twentieth century, styles and techniques for studying literature varied significantly due to the influence of literary theory.
Japanese: 20世紀後半には文学理論の影響で研究の手法は非常に幅広いものとなった。
English: He appears from the first chapter, 'Kiritsubo' (The Paulownia Court) to the fortieth chapter, 'Maboroshi' (The Wizard), among the 54 chapters of "Genji Monogatari,"
Japanese: 『源氏物語』五十四帖中第一帖「桐壺」から第四十帖「幻(源氏物語)」まで登場する。
English: Hikaru Genji' is a nickname that means 'A beautiful and shining Genji,' hence his actual name is not 'Hikaru' (shining).
Japanese: なお「光源氏」とは「光り輝くように美しい源氏」を意味する通称で、本名が「光」というわけではない。
English: He is a fictitious character, but there are various theories proposing that he was modeled after an actual person.
Japanese: 架空の人物であるが、さまざまな実在の人物をモデルとする説が唱えられている。
English: The most likely theory is that Hikaru Genji was modeled after Shoichii (Senior First Rank) Kawara no Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) MINAMOTO no Toru of the Saga-Genji (Minamoto clan).
Japanese: 嵯峨源氏の正一位河原左大臣の源融（みなもとのとおる）をモデルにしたとする説が有力である。
English: Other people who were considered possible models for Hikaru Genji were Sadaijin MINAMOTO no Takaakira of Daigo-Genji (Minamoto clan), Emperor Koko, FUJIWARA no Michinaga, FUJIWARA no Korechika, MINAMOTO no Hikaru (a court noble), Emperor Saga and so on.
Japanese: また醍醐源氏の左大臣源高明や光孝天皇、藤原道長、藤原伊周、源光(公卿)、嵯峨天皇など多くの人々の名前が挙げられている。
English: Even if the character was modeled after a real person, other stories concerning court nobles during the Heian period seem to have been added.
Japanese: もっとも、どの人物がモデルであったとしても、その人物以外の他の平安貴族の故事なども用いて脚色されていると考えられている。
English: Being blessed with shining beauty and talent as a child, he was given the nickname 'Hikaru Kimi' (literally, shining prince).
Japanese: 幼少の頃から輝くばかりの美貌と才能に恵まれ、「光る君（ひかるきみ）」と綽名される。
English: His deep feelings towards Fujitsubo, who resembles his mother, becomes his first love, and he holds sexual relationships with various women throughout his life as he searches for a woman with his mother's features.
Japanese: 母に似る女性藤壺への思慕が初恋となり、その面影を求めて生涯様々な女性と関係を持つ。
English: His father, Emperor Kiritsubo, had intended to make Hikaru Kimi the Crown Prince but instead demotes him to the status of a subject and gives him the family name of Genji because he fears the fact that his son would not be supported by his mother's family, and because a Korean predicted that the country will be in a state of disorder if Hikaru Kimi became emperor.
Japanese: 父桐壺帝は光る君を東宮（皇太子）とすることを考えたが、実家の後援がないことを危ぶみ、また光る君が帝位につけば国は乱れると高麗人に予言されたこともあり、臣籍降下させ源氏の姓を与えた。
English: His feelings for Fujitsubo, who enters the kokyu (Empress's residence) of his father because she looks like his lost mother, became stronger and he has a sexual relationship with her (resulting in Emperor Reizei), but no one knows of their illicit affair.
Japanese: 亡母に似ているとして父帝の後宮に入った藤壺を慕い、遂に一線を越えて子（後の冷泉帝）をなすが、密通の事実は世に知られることはなかった。
English: Hikaru Genji acts as regent to his child from his Crown Prince years, and when the child becomes Emperor Reizei and plans to abdicate the throne to Genji after learning the facts, Genji strongly refuses.
Japanese: この皇子の東宮時代から後見として支え、即位後に冷泉帝が事実を知り譲位を考えた時には固辞した。
English: His legal wife was Aoi no ue, a daughter of Sadaijin (the Minister of the Left), whom he marries upon coming of age; and later, Onna San no Miya, a daughter of his older brother, Emperor Suzaku, becomes his legal wife.
Japanese: 正妻は最初元服と同時に結婚した左大臣の娘葵の上、後に兄朱雀帝の皇女・女三宮である。
English: However, Murasaki no ue (also called Wakamurasaki or Murasaki no Kimi), whom Genji brought up to become his ideal woman, is his legal wife in all but name, and he loves her the most among his many women.
Japanese: しかし源氏が理想の女性として育てた紫の上（若紫、紫の君とも呼ばれる）が葵の上の死後事実上の正妻であり、多くの夫人の中で彼女への愛が最も深かった。
English: Other concubines or lovers of Genji are Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, Utsusemi, Yugao, Suetsumuhana, Oborozukiyo, Hanachirusato, Akashi no Onkata, and so on.
Japanese: 他、源氏の側室・愛人としては、六条御息所、空蝉(源氏物語)、夕顔(源氏物語)、末摘花(源氏物語)、朧月夜(源氏物語)、花散里、明石の御方などが登場する。
English: He also showed interest in his cousin, Asagao, and Empress Akikonomu, who was the former Saigu (Imperial Princess appointed to serve the deities of Ise-jingu Shrine) and the daughter of Rokujo no Miyasudokoro.
Japanese: 従姉妹の朝顔(源氏物語)や六条御息所の娘の前斎宮（秋好中宮）にも心を寄せた。
English: According to sukuyo (astrology), it was predicted that 'there would be three children: one will be an Emperor, one will be an Empress, and even the inferior one in the middle will be Dajo Daijin (Grand Minister of State)' (in the chapter of 'Miotsukushi' (Channel Buoys)), and the prediction comes true since his three children were: Emperor Reizei, the son with Fujitsubo; Yugiri, the eldest son with Aoi no ue; and Princess Akashi, the daughter with Akashi no Onkata.
Japanese: 宿曜の占いによれば「3人の子供をなし、ひとりは帝、ひとりは中宮、真ん中の劣った者も太政大臣となる」と言われ（「澪標」）、これは藤壺の子冷泉帝、葵の上との間に生まれた長男の夕霧(源氏物語)、明石の御方の娘である明石の姫君の三人により実現した。
English: However, Emperor Reizei's birth was a secret, and Onna San no Miya's child was officially recognized as his second son, Kaoru (because of the prediction, Genji doesn't believe Onna San no Miya is pregnant at first, but it makes sense later when he learns of her affair with Kashiwagi).
Japanese: ただし冷泉帝の出生は秘事であり、また公的には女三宮の生んだ薫が源氏の子（次男）とされている（なおこの占いのためもあってか、源氏は始め女三宮が身篭ったと聞いてもすぐには信じず、後に柏木(源氏物語)との密通を知り納得した）。
English: He adopts Empress Akikonomu, a daughter of the late Rokujo no Miyasudokoro, and Tamakazura, a daughter between Tono Chujo (the first secretary's captain) and Yugao as his daughters.
Japanese: この他、六条御息所の遺児秋好中宮と、頭中将と夕顔との娘玉鬘(源氏物語)を養女とした。
English: After his older brother Emperor Suzaku ascends the throne, he goes into voluntary seclusion at Suma, and then at Akashi, under pressure from the Udaijin (Minister of the Right) and Kokiden no nyogo (Empress Kokiden) group, who were maternal relatives of the emperor and due to the scandal about his relationship with Oborozukiyo, who had become Naishi no Kami (Principal Handmaid).
Japanese: 兄の朱雀帝即位後、その外戚である右大臣・弘徽殿女御派の圧力や尚侍となっていた朧月夜との醜聞もあって須磨、後に明石へ隠退。
English: After he returns to the capital, he makes a comeback as a guardian of Emperor Reizei, adopting Empress Akikonomu as his daughter and making her Emperor Reizei's wife.
Japanese: 帰京後は即位した冷泉帝の後見として復帰、秋好中宮を養女に迎えて冷泉帝の后とした。
English: Subsequently, Genji becomes Dajo Daijin and builds the grand residence of Rokujoin consisting of four sections, which symbolizes his prosperity.
Japanese: その後太政大臣となった源氏は、その栄華の象徴ともなる広大な四町の邸宅・六条院を造営した。
English: The southwest quarter, or the Autumn Quarter (former residence of Rokujo Miyasudokoro) was assigned to Empress Akikonomu as her home, and he lived in the southeast quarter, or the Spring Quarter, together with Murasaki no ue and Princess Akashi.
Japanese: 西南の秋の町（六条御息所の旧邸）は秋好中宮の里邸に、自らは東南の春の町に紫の上や明石の姫君と住んだ。
English: The northeast quarter, or the Summer Quarter, was assigned to Hanachirusato (later, Tamakazura was taken in here), and the northwest quarter, or the Winter Quarter, was assigned to Akashi no kimi, and he also took care of his former lovers at Nijo no Toin..
Japanese: また東北の夏の町には花散里を（後に玉鬘もここに迎えられた）、西北の冬の町には明石の君を配し、さらに二条東院にもかつての愛人たちを引き取って世話をした。
English: When his older brother Suzakuin became a priest, he asked Genji, who was at the height of his glory, if he could be the guardian of Suzakuin's daughter and Genji's niece, Onna San no Miya, and take her as his legal wifebecause he did not have a noble wife with powerful guardians who was suitable as hihs legal wife.
Japanese: 栄華の絶頂に至った源氏だったが、兄朱雀院の出家に際し、源氏の正室にふさわしい高貴で有力な後見ある妻がいない事にかこつけて、内親王の庇護者にと姪・女三宮の降嫁を打診される。
English: Even after the passing of Fujitsubo, it was hard for Genji to stop loving her, and he was swayed by the fact that Onna San no Miya was a niece of Fujitsubo as was Murasaki no ue, so he could not refuse the offer.
Japanese: 藤壺亡き後も今なお彼女への思いおさえがたく、女三宮が紫の上同様に藤壺の姪であることにも心動かされた源氏は、これを断る事が出来なかった。
English: However, after he marries Onna San no Miya, he was disappointed to find that she was just a childish girl, and Murasaki no ue was also shocked by Onna San no Miya's marriage out of the royal family that she eventually becomes ill due to stress.
Japanese: しかし結婚してみればただ幼いだけの女三宮に源氏は失望し、また女三宮降嫁に衝撃を受けた紫の上も苦悩の末病に倒れる。
English: After a while, Onna San no Miya's affair becomes apparent, just like Genji, who once betrayed his father Emperor Kiritsubo.
Japanese: やがて源氏自身がかつて父桐壺帝を裏切ったように、女三宮の密通が発覚する。
English: Although Genji's anger builds up against Onna San no Miya and her lover Kashiwagi, he sees a newborn baby (Kaoru) and realizes that it is the fruit of the sin that he committed in his youth (karmic retribution).
Japanese: 一度は女三宮とその愛人の柏木に怒りをつのらせた源氏であったが、生まれた子ども（薫）を見て、これが若い日の罪の報いであったことに気づかされる（因果応報）。
English: Subsequently, his anger cools after Onna San no Miya becomes a nun and Kashiwagi passes away, and he considers that his deceased father might also have known of Genji's sin but did not blame him, so he makes up his mind to raise the child as his own without telling anybody the secret.
Japanese: その後女三宮の出家と柏木の死でさすがに怒りも和らぎ、また亡き父帝も源氏の過ちを悟っていながら咎めなかったのではないかと思いを馳せて、源氏は生まれた子の秘密を誰にもいわず自分の子として育てる事になった。
English: After the death of his beloved Murasaki no ue, he retires to Sagano, leads a priest's life for a few years and then passes away, as told later in the chapter of 'Yadorigi' (The Ivy).
Japanese: 最愛の紫の上の死後は、嵯峨野に隠退して二、三年出家生活を送った後に死去したことが、後に「宿木」で述べられる。
English: The work contains no description regarding the time from his becoming a priest to his death, and the chapter of 'Kumogakure' (Vanished into the Clouds), which is suggestive of the death of Genji, but some say that the text was lost.
Japanese: なお出家から死までは作中には描かれず、本文の存在しない「雲隠」が源氏の死を暗示するのみであるとも、また本文は失われたとも言われる。
English: The characteristics of a person who has worldly prosperity but always thinking of the Buddhist path despite his innumerable love affairs, are divided and inherited by the characters of the next generation, Kaoru and Nioumiya.
Japanese: 現世の繁栄を享受しながら常に仏道を思い、にもかかわらず女性遍歴を繰り返すという人物造形は、次の世代の薫と匂宮にそれぞれ分割して受け継がれる。
English: It also influenced Sagoromo no Taisho, the main character of "Sagoromo Monogatari (The Tale of Sagoromo)," which was written shortly after "Genji Monogatari."
Japanese: また、しばらく後に書かれた『狭衣物語』の主人公である狭衣大将にも影響を与えている。
English: Though the name of Wakamurasaki is used in the title of the fifth chapter, the name doesn't appear in the chapter but only appears in "Murasaki Shikibu Diary", 'When FUJIWARA no Kinto got drunk, turning up around the place where Shikibu was supposed to be, and asked, 'Is my Wakamurasaki there?''
Japanese: なお「若紫」は第5帖の題名であり作中には出てこず、他には『紫式部日記』に「左衞門のかみあなかしこ此のわたりにわかむらさきやさふらふとうかゝいたまふ」（藤原公任が酔って式部のいるあたりを「私の若紫おいでですか？」といいたまう）とあるのみである。
English: The name 'Murasaki' came from a poem on miscellaneous matters in the Kokin Wakashu (imperial anthology of old and new Japanese Poetry): 'Because of this one gromwell plant, I feel affection for everything on Musashi Plain.'
Japanese: 「紫」の名は古今和歌集の雑歌「紫のひともとゆゑに武蔵野の草はみながらあはれとぞみる」に因む。
English: It implies that she is a relative of Fujitsubo (Murasaki no yukari), Hikaru Genji's 'eternal woman.'
Japanese: 光源氏の「永遠の女性」である藤壺の縁者（紫のゆかり）であることを婉曲に表す。
English: Additionally, 'ue' suggests that she is Genji's legal wife, being treated as such by Genji and other people, but there was never an official announcement of marriage.
Japanese: また「上」の呼称が示すように、源氏の正妻格として源氏にも周囲にも扱われるが、正式な結婚披露をした北の方ではない。
English: Her father is Hyobukyo no Miya (later called Shikibukyo no Miya, and a son of the Emperor Kiritsubo's predecessor), and her mother is a daughter of Azechi (inspector of the provincial government) no Dainagon (Major Counselor).
Japanese: 父は兵部卿宮（後に式部卿宮、桐壺帝の先帝の皇子）、母は按察使大納言の娘。
English: Her father Hyobukyo no Miya rarely visited her (due to pressure from his legal wife), and her mother died soon after she was born, so she was brought up by her grandmother, Kitayama no Amagimi (a nun).
Japanese: 正妻による圧力のために父兵部卿宮の訪問は間遠で、生まれてすぐ母は亡くなり、その後は祖母の北山の尼君に育てられた。
English: According to her great-uncle, Sozu, ten years had passed since her mother's death before she was found by Hikaru Genji, who had visited Kitayama to receive medical treatment
Japanese: 大伯父僧都によると母親が亡くなって10余年たち、北山に病気療養に来ていた光源氏に垣間見られる。
English: Genji falls in love with her at first sight because she looks exactly like Fujitsubo even though she is young, and once he learns that she was a niece of Fujitsubo, he becomes increasingly attached to her.
Japanese: このとき源氏は、幼いながらもその藤壺と生き写しの容姿に一目で惹かれ、さらに藤壺の姪であることを知り執着をもつようになる。
English: After the death of her grandmother, she is supposed to be taken in by her father, but Genji takes her to his residence Nijoin and brings her up to become his ideal woman without telling anyone who she is ('Wakamurasaki').
Japanese: 祖母の死後、父に引き取られるはずであった若紫を略取した源氏は、自邸の二条院において、周囲には彼女の素性を隠しながら理想の女性に育てる（「若紫」）。
English: Genji has their first sexual relationship with her after his first legal wife Aoi no ue passes away, and after that she is treated as his legal wife ('Aoi' (hollyhock)).
Japanese: 光源氏の最初の正妻である葵の上の没後に、源氏と初床となり以後公に正妻同様に扱われる（「葵_(源氏物語)」）。
English: Her father, Hyobukyo no Miya, is finally told after Murasaki no ue is treated as Genji's wife that his missing daughter had been under the care of Genji.
Japanese: 紫の上が妻として扱われるようになって初めて、父兵部卿宮にも、行方不明であった娘が源氏のもとにいることが知らされた。
English: At first Hyobukyo no Miya gives welcomes Genji, but when he lives in seclusion at Suma, Hyobukyo no Miya does not support Murasaki no ue because he feared the power of the Udaijin (Minister of the Right).
Japanese: 兵部卿宮は始めこれを歓迎したが、源氏が須磨に隠棲したときには右大臣の権勢を恐れて紫の上を支援しなかった。
English: Because Murasaki no ue is childless, Genji adopts a baby daughter of Akashi no Onkata for Murasaki no ue, and has her raise the child to be the future Empress ('Usugumo' (Wisps of Cloud)).
Japanese: 紫の上には子供がなかったため、源氏は明石の御方が生んだ女の子（のちの明石の姫君）を紫の上の養女とし、将来の后候補として育てさせた（「薄雲」）。
English: Once Empress Akashi enters the Imperial Palace, she raises Onna Ichi no Miya and San no Miya (Nioumiya) who were children of the Empress and she particularly loves Nioumiya, leaving Nijoin to him in her will.
Japanese: また明石中宮の入内後には、中宮の産んだ女一宮と三の宮（匂宮）を養育しており、特に愛した匂宮には遺言で二条院を遺した。
English: She was loved by Hikaru Genji the most as his beloved wife all along, but she was often jealous of Akashi no Onkata, who bore Genji a child, and was upset when a rumor circulated that Asagao and Genji were getting married.
Japanese: 光源氏に誰よりも愛された最愛の妻である一方、源氏の子を産んだ明石の御方にはたびたび嫉妬し、また朝顔(源氏物語)と源氏の結婚の噂が立った時には動揺もした。
English: However, after she moves to the spring section of Rokujoin Palace, she is considered Genji's legal wife both in name and actuality, being called 'Haru no ue' or 'Kita no kata,' and she is praised for her beauty and kind-heartedness, of which she is proud.
Japanese: しかし、六条院の春の町に移って以降は名実ともに源氏の正夫人として「春の上」「北の方」等と呼ばれ、容貌も心ばせも完璧な女性と謳われて本人もそれを誇りに思っていた。
English: Because she has no children of her own and no powerful guardian, she is shocked when she learns that Emperor Suzaku's daughter, Onna San no Miya, is going to get married to Genji, and she realizes how vulnerable she is.
Japanese: しかし実子を持たず確かな後見ある正妻でもなかったため、朱雀帝の女三宮の降嫁が決まった時には衝撃を受け、自分の身の不安定さに改めて気付かされる。
English: However, Genji doesn't notice the concern of Murasaki no ue and the difference in their feelings for each other gets bigger and bigger, and at the age of 37 which is considered a critical age for a woman, she falls seriously ill because of anxiety ('Wakana' (new herbs)).
Japanese: しかし紫の上の悩みに気づかぬ源氏と次第にすれ違いを重ね、その心労から37歳の厄年に重病にかかる（「若菜(源氏物語)」）。
English: Later she moves to the Nijoin residence in order to receive medical treatment, and sometimes mentions that she wants to become a nun, but she dies before Hikaru Genji of an illness without being allowed to become a nun ('Minori').
Japanese: その後療養のために二条院に移り、時折出家したい心境をもらすこともあったが、最後までそれを許されぬまま、光源氏に先立って病没した（「御法」）。
English: Genji, who had depended upon her to be perfect, realizes the secret agony and loneliness she felt, and as a result he mourns her death for more than a year ('Maboroshi' (The Wizard)).
Japanese: 彼女の完璧さを頼りに安堵しきっていた源氏は、悲嘆の中で改めて彼女が隠してきた苦悩と孤独を痛感し、その後の一年あまり紫の上を偲び続けた（「幻(源氏物語)」）。
English: It is also a Japanese setsuwa (folk tale), and the name of the main character within it.
Japanese: また、日本の説話（おとぎばなし）の一つで、その主人公の名前でもある。
English: The outline of the plot, which is widely known in Japan today, is as follows.
Japanese: 現在一般的に流通しているストーリーはおおむね以下のようなものである。
English: After a while, Taro told her that he would go home, at which point Otohime gave him a casket, saying 'Don't ever open this.'
Japanese: しばらくして太郎が帰る意思を伝えると、乙姫は「決して開けてはならない」としつつ玉手箱を渡す。