{"id":341,"date":"2017-10-01T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=341"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:00:55","slug":"aoi-no-ue-or-lady-aoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/aoi-no-ue-or-lady-aoi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Aoi no ue<\/em> or <em>Lady Aoi<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The play is based on a short sequence from the <i>Genji Monogatari<\/i>, or the <i>Story of Genji<\/i>, by Lady Murasaki (1004).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lady Aoi, the official wife of the handsome Prince Genji, has been taken ill mysteriously. (She is discreetly represented by a brocade robe placed in the front of the stage.) The nearly dying Lady Aoi is pregnant with Genji\u2019s child. A shaman is invited to perform exorcism rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It becomes clear that Lady Aoi is possessed by the spirit of the dead Princess Rokujo, who had been one of Prince Genji\u2019s lovers. Even as a ghost she is possessed by jealousy. Furthermore, her rage is intensified because in a carriage accident she had been further humiliated by Lady Aoi. Princess Rokujo\u2019s ghost relates her bitterness and strikes the sickbed. The shaman is powerless and only the prayers of a Buddhist monk calms Princess Rokujo\u2019s spirit, which finally finds peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The play is based on a short sequence from the Genji Monogatari, or the Story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-synopses","tag-shaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}