Asakiyumemishi - The Tale of Genji Manga Gets Anime

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An animated television adaptation of Waki Yamato's Asakiyumemishi - The Tale of Genji historical shōjo manga has been green-lit. The manga adapts Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, a classic in Japanese literature about the lives of a motherless prince and his descendants. The 11-episode anime series will debut on Fuji TV's popular late night Noitamina timeslot next January, which is when the Nodame Cantabile: Paris anime series is expected to end. The 13 volumes of the Asakiyumemishi manga have sold 17 million copies since the original 1979-1993 run in Kodansha's mimi and mimi Excellent magazines.



Jealous to Genji's Other Women
Jealousy was believed to arise from spiritual evils, and culturally, men and women were encouraged to erase
the emotion from their hearts, no matter what it cost or how much it shackled their psychological health.
In the Tale of Genji, Genji was allowed to have multiple lovers under polygamy and conducted sideline
relationships with concubines and mistresses with discretion.On the other hand, that were women who had to keep jealousies of the Genji's other mistresses inside themselves.
One of Genji's lovers, Lady Rokujo, was so intensely jealous of Genji's wife that she left her body spiritually in order to possess and physically kill her female rival. Lady Rokujo also died, but her jealous spirit lingered to haunt Genji's women.　

These images depict the car accident between the groups of Lady Rokujo and Lady Aoi. The aggressive attitude by Aoi's side hurt Lady Rokujo so much that she lost a control of her intense emotion. Then the love toward Genji changed into animosity toward his wife, Aoi.



Another episode of jealousy in the Tale of Genji involved Yugiri and Kumoi-no-Kari.
Yugiri's wife, Kumoi-no-kari was jealous when he spent time with Kashiwagi's widow, the Second Princess. She scolded him for coming home late as she nurses a fretful baby.

Here, Yugiri reads the letter from his lover's mother, Miyasu-Dokoro, and Kumoi-no-kari tries to take if from him, misunderstanding he is reading a love letter from his lover, Ochiba-no-miya.

This is the same scene from a latter version of the Tale of Genji written during the Edo period, "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji."