The whole structure of The Tale of Genji has been understood easily as a mandala( a circle). Of course The Tale of Genji was a mandala which was picturized as correspondency of human beings to a life of the whole universe. But we must notice the relation between the expression of "narration" and an imagination of mythlogy, because one of main ideas in Genji was Buddhism of Tendai and Shingon sects. An example of a mandala could be found in Hokke Mandala as a service for Onna-San-no-miya's Buddhist figure in the volume of Suzumushi. However, not saluvation by a mandala but the stream of humanistic time was narrated here. Compared with other romances, Genji did not have the pattern of "narration", but its "narration" transformed and dissoluted the pattern. Rokujo-in had originally a circle of mythlogy and realized it through the medium of history. Moreover it changed and developed by narration of characters' life time. Compared with The Fukiage in The Tale of Utsuho or The Tales of Konjaku which had a complete circle of four seasons and four directions, we could understand the over-development of the space and time in Genji. A mandala is an imaginary space and original pattern. Fiction as one of illusions without a basis started not from Buddha or gods but from the speech of human beings who were living in earthly world. Thus a reverse of view happened. The level of "narration" of Genji critisized the idea of the world in a mandala as a pattern, and developed by objectifying itself.
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