relatos clásicos japoneses de amor: resumen
«Amor y hechizo: relatos clásicos japoneses de romance» es una serie de manga de episodios autoconclusivos que adapta historias de amor de la literatura clásica japonesa y lo sobrenatural que ese amor atrae: demonios (oni), espíritus de personas vivas, serpientes, fantasmas vengativos y voces de dioses. Las historias proceden de obras de la época Heian como los «Cuentos de Ise», «La historia de Genji», el «Diario de Izumi Shikibu» y la antología poética «Goshūi wakashū»; del «Konjaku monogatari», de finales de Heian, y de los «Cuentos de lluvia y de luna» (Ugetsu monogatari), que Ueda Akinari escribió en la época Edo, entre otras.
De los «Cuentos de Ise» llegan «Akutagawa», en la que un hombre rapta a una dama de alto rango y la pierde en un almacén; «¿No es esta la luna?», sobre un hombre que añora a una amada que ya está fuera de su alcance, y «Azusayumi», en la que un marido vuelve junto a la esposa que lo esperó tres años. De «La historia de Genji» se adaptan la despedida en el santuario de Nonomiya, donde la dama Rokujō pone fin por sí misma a su amor, y el capítulo «Aoi», en el que su alma abandona el cuerpo y atormenta a la dama Aoi. Izumi Shikibu protagoniza dos historias: su romance con el hermano menor de su amante fallecido y la leyenda del dios de Kibune que respondió a uno de sus poemas.
De los «Cuentos de lluvia y de luna» llegan «La lujuria de la serpiente» (Jasei no in), sobre Toyoo y Manago, una serpiente con forma de mujer que lo ama; «Asaji ga yado», en la que un hombre vuelve a casa tras siete años y encuentra a su esposa esperándolo, y «El caldero de Kibitsu», en la que una esposa traicionada se convierte en fantasma vengativo. También está la leyenda del templo Dōjō-ji (Anchin y Kiyohime), en la que una mujer engañada se transforma en una gran serpiente y persigue a un monje. Cada episodio sigue la trama del original, y los artículos que lo acompañan explican el sentido de los poemas, el contexto histórico y lo que se cambió en el manga.
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Resumen de la historia
Episodio 1She Asked 'What's That?' He Never Answered — The Tales of Ise: Akutagawa
En el mangaEpisode 1 of the series. After years of longing, a man runs off into the night carrying the woman he loves on his back. Along the way she keeps asking, "What's that?" He never answers her last question. When a thunderstorm hits, he hides her in an old storehouse and stands guard at the door until morning. At dawn, she is gone. This is a thousand-year-old story of an elopement, and of one question that went unanswered.
Episodio 2She Chose to End It. Then He Showed Up. — The Tale of Genji: The Sacred Tree (Farewell at Nonomiya)
En el mangaLady Rokujō has decided to end her love affair herself by leaving for distant Ise. Then, just before she goes, Genji comes to see her. Through a bamboo blind they trade poems and talk until dawn. After that night she doesn't answer his letters begging her to stay, and she leaves the capital without looking back.
Episodio 3I Fell for My Dead Lover's Brother — The Izumi Shikibu Diary
En el mangaA year after losing the man she loved, Izumi Shikibu has shut herself away—until his younger brother, Prince Atsumichi, sends her a sprig of white orange blossoms. A reply in verse sparks a love that survives rumors and lonely nights, and leads to a carriage waiting for her on a snowy night. But in the shadows, someone else quietly leaves the house.
Episodio 4I Lent Her My Umbrella. She Never Left. — The Lust of the White Serpent — Tales of Moonlight and Rain
En el mangaEpisode 4 of the series. On a rainy day, a timid young man named Toyoo lends his old umbrella to Manago, a beautiful woman soaked to the skin. She loves him with all her heart, but she is not human. Toyoo keeps running from her, until someone dies because of him. Then he decides to end things with the one he loved, by his own hand.
Episodio 5The Night I Remarried, My Husband Knocked — "The Catalpa Bow" from The Tales of Ise
En el mangaHer husband left for the capital, and for three years The Wife Who Waited kept waiting. Finally she promises to marry The Faithful Suitor, the man who stood by her the whole time. That night, someone knocks at her door. It's The Returning Husband, home at last.
Episodio 6Every Night, I Dream of Striking a Woman — The Tale of Genji: "Aoi" (Lady Rokujō)
En el mangaEpisode 6 of the series. On festival day, proud Lady Rokujō goes unnoticed by her lover Genji, then is publicly humiliated by his wife's retainers. That summer, one spirit refuses to leave Genji's wife, Lady Aoi, and every time Lady Rokujō sleeps, she has the same dream.
Episodio 7Gone Seven Years. Her Lamp Still Burned. — Tales of Moonlight and Rain: \"The House Amid the Thickets\"
En el mangaA man leaves his wife, swearing he'll be home by autumn, and sets off for the capital to sell silk. One reason not to return piles on another until seven years have gone by. When he finally reaches his village, it's buried in grass, and only his house has a light in the window.
Episodio 8One Night, She Was Suddenly Out of Reach — The Tales of Ise: "Is This Not the Moon?"
En el mangaLast plum season, a man visited her every night, until one night she was suddenly moved somewhere he could never reach. A year later, on the same plum-scented night, he steps into her room once more.
Episodio 942 Nights. Do Not Open the Door. — The Kibitsu Cauldron (Tales of Moonlight and Rain)
En el mangaBefore the wedding, the shrine's sacred cauldron is struck for an omen, and it stays silent. Isora is deceived by her husband Shōtarō, and her devotion is trampled. For forty-two nights she waits outside the door where he hides.
Episodio 10The Kind Lie That Turned Her Into a Serpent — Dōjōji: Anchin and Kiyohime
En el mangaA widow guarding her home alone falls for a young monk passing through. He sidesteps her feelings with a gentle lie: "I'll stop by on my way back." Then he takes another road home. After waiting and waiting, she becomes a great serpent, chases him down, and coils around a temple bell. In the end, prayer sets both of them free: the one who lied and the one who hated.
Episodio 11He Stopped Writing. The Dark Wrote Back. — Izumi Shikibu: Fireflies at Kifune
En el mangaIzumi Shikibu, a poet still waiting for a lover who has stopped coming, leaves her waiting room one summer night and heads for a mountain stream in the hills north of the capital. Seeing her own soul in the fireflies that fill the dark, she composes a poem, and from deep in the darkness a voice answers. This is the story of a thousand-year-old love poem and a reply whose sender no one knows.