His love for her is the one constant in everything I read about him. What I meant in my comment was that learning more about them both created a different set of feelings than those elicited by the poem. As I implied at the end of my comment, both sets of feelings are valid. But I think I preferred the set of feelings your beautiful piece brought forth.
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/thelilley/artwork/yokihi?artist=kogyo-tsukioka there are countless versions and takes on the story ❤️ especially in Noh drama, plus the wonderful idea that she escaped and lived out her days in Japan 🇯🇵 the issue is usually that a ruler needs to rule so people don’t undergo terrible times of chaos but rulers are human things and can fall in love giri ninjo in Japanese is a major literary trope
The poem! Echoes what it would have been like to be there whoever you are in the procession. Each person would have felt the weight of that love and loss. Fine work you'e done in evoking the timbre of the force of life raised to snare death.
Sadness and joy, pain and pleasure, illusion and enlightenment, man and nature, loniless and love . . . Emotions and experiences all so aptly conveyed here. Thank you.
I made the mistake of reading all about Emperor Xuanzong in Wikipedia--epic womanizer, survivor and initiator of intrigues, curses, and a bloodbath of assassinations during his flourishing reign. Yang Guifei was his son's wife. After he'd taken her and provided his son with a new wife, he made Yang Guifei and her whole clan fabulously rich from his generosity, and equally powerful.
Although it's clear that he loved her dearly, and mourned her in the subsequent years, there seems to be much about their story that has been subsequently idealized by poets and artists. That said, it's a marvelous story no matter who tells it, or with what bias it is told.
I don’t think it’s a mistake to read aWikipedia article and their story has been idealized by poets and artists for a 1000 years in Japan as well as in China because it is epic. As an emperor, he was supposed to be ruling this vast empire, but he was so besotted that he more and more stopped governing And the rebellion that ensued cost the death of millions of people. The poem is called the song of unending sorrow and the sorrow was his and hers and everyone else’s. She was strangled by his generals, probably partly as punishment to make him suffer, but also to make him open his eyes and try to fix the situation. In the tale of Genji kiritsubo died of sickness the message being that emperors are supposed to rule first and love second otherwise chaos can happen That’s probably the fundamental message if one is required in Japan and China, both on TV and in theater, the stories told for many angles
His love for her is the one constant in everything I read about him. What I meant in my comment was that learning more about them both created a different set of feelings than those elicited by the poem. As I implied at the end of my comment, both sets of feelings are valid. But I think I preferred the set of feelings your beautiful piece brought forth.
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/thelilley/artwork/yokihi?artist=kogyo-tsukioka there are countless versions and takes on the story ❤️ especially in Noh drama, plus the wonderful idea that she escaped and lived out her days in Japan 🇯🇵 the issue is usually that a ruler needs to rule so people don’t undergo terrible times of chaos but rulers are human things and can fall in love giri ninjo in Japanese is a major literary trope
What a great love story.
The poem! Echoes what it would have been like to be there whoever you are in the procession. Each person would have felt the weight of that love and loss. Fine work you'e done in evoking the timbre of the force of life raised to snare death.
Thank you, Sally! ❤️
I am inspired to read more history after this!
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Sadness and joy, pain and pleasure, illusion and enlightenment, man and nature, loniless and love . . . Emotions and experiences all so aptly conveyed here. Thank you.
Oh, it made my day seeing you here! Thank you so much for reading! XOXO
I made the mistake of reading all about Emperor Xuanzong in Wikipedia--epic womanizer, survivor and initiator of intrigues, curses, and a bloodbath of assassinations during his flourishing reign. Yang Guifei was his son's wife. After he'd taken her and provided his son with a new wife, he made Yang Guifei and her whole clan fabulously rich from his generosity, and equally powerful.
Although it's clear that he loved her dearly, and mourned her in the subsequent years, there seems to be much about their story that has been subsequently idealized by poets and artists. That said, it's a marvelous story no matter who tells it, or with what bias it is told.
I don’t think it’s a mistake to read aWikipedia article and their story has been idealized by poets and artists for a 1000 years in Japan as well as in China because it is epic. As an emperor, he was supposed to be ruling this vast empire, but he was so besotted that he more and more stopped governing And the rebellion that ensued cost the death of millions of people. The poem is called the song of unending sorrow and the sorrow was his and hers and everyone else’s. She was strangled by his generals, probably partly as punishment to make him suffer, but also to make him open his eyes and try to fix the situation. In the tale of Genji kiritsubo died of sickness the message being that emperors are supposed to rule first and love second otherwise chaos can happen That’s probably the fundamental message if one is required in Japan and China, both on TV and in theater, the stories told for many angles