I'm the masochist man on duty this week. It's finally out, ``Yuki of Koromine''. In high school (or maybe junior high school?), I somehow heard about Sei Shonagon's ``Makura no Soshi.'' Even though I was a masochistic guy, the opening line, ``Spring is Akebono...'' and this ``Incense Burning Mine'' were all I could remember, and it was quite moving. It was a scene. Sei Shonagon's proud face! I think it's understandable that Sei Shonagon was immediately chosen as First Summer Uika during the casting process. But after that, Michinaga-sama's embrace of Mahiro at Hiden-in was probably too good...
The scene where Kinto and Yukinari play in the snow in the garden after Koromine is also a bit too light-hearted, isn't it? I thought, but this beautiful scene contrasts well with the epidemic scene in the second half. NHK is also thinking about this. Even so, Kōin is still super cool. Yukinari should have been a lot more talented, but with a character like that, it can't be helped.
The plague in the second half was just terrible. I think we are all the more overwhelmed by this, especially since we are now in 2024, experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. When I looked into it, it seems that the epidemic that occurred in the year 5, when the story takes place, was smallpox. It is said that moats throughout Kyoto were filled with dead people. At the end of the last episode, when Mahiro saw dead bodies piled up on the water's edge, it turns out he wasn't exaggerating.
Reunion and hug at Hiden-in. it's too
Isn't it too good to be true?
No matter how full of a sacrificial spirit you are, Mahiro and Michinaga must not go to Hiden-in, they will get infected! If only Michikane, now a self-aware anti-hero, would do such dirty work! Everyone thought so and watched in suspense. But, but, by chance, Michinaga picks up Mahiro who is about to collapse, takes him home, and then nurses Amatsue up all night. No matter how dramatic it is, isn't it a little too good to be true, Mr. Shizuka Oishi? .
"Have you found the meaning of your birth?"
Even if you ask such a question to a patient who is unconscious...
Michinaga asks Mahiro, who is breathless, ``Have you found the meaning of your birth?'' I don't think it makes sense to ask such a question at a time like this, but the fundamental theme of this drama is to investigate Mahiro's ``motivation for writing The Tale of Genji,'' which is the ``meaning for which he was born.'' , I guess they are intentionally resurfacing and reconfirming the theme in this chaotic situation.
It is foreshadowed that he meets Michitsuna's mother, the author of ``Dragonfly Diary'', at Ishiyama Temple and is impressed by him, and the path towards writing stories and diaries is gradually taking shape. But there's a long way to go. As her girlfriend N-san is very concerned about, her father has not yet been transferred to Echizen, and Akiko, who will eventually serve as his wife, is still young. Of course, since it's a drama, it's entirely possible for the series to suddenly jump from one era to the next, but I think it's time for some new developments.
What I'm curious about is how the relationship between Mahiro (in this case, it might be more appropriate to call him Murasaki Shikibu) and Michinaga will be depicted when he begins writing The Tale of Genji. Is the relationship between the two of them already cold, or are they still harboring passionate feelings? Of course, I hope it's the latter, but I don't want it to turn out to be a bit easy like the Hidenin hug this time. Please, Mr. Oishi.
Since I'm in a commuter marriage, it's up to my husband to decide where to sleep?
No, you from the north, it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
This may be a spoiler, but there is one small detail. Perhaps in the next episode, Michitaka and possibly Michikane will die, but it is said that Michitaka died not from the epidemic of smallpox, but from diabetes caused by excessive drinking. Come to think of it, there are many scenes where Michitaka is drinking alcohol, and this time, perhaps as a sign of diabetes, he was raising the blinds and looking unusually dazzling, and he was also drinking gulps of water. It's a very small detail, but NHK did a great job of keeping the foreshadowing in mind.
Both Michitaka and Michikane left, and Michinaga, who was Gon Dainagon and was seventh in the hierarchy, rose to the top. Although Mahiro may not be aware of it, Rinko senses the existence of a woman who is neither herself nor Akiko living in Michinaga's heart, and she even smiles, perhaps because she is from the north. That smile is so scary!
In the preview, you asked Michinaga, ``Where are you staying?'' Back then, when she was commuting, her husband would sleep at their house in the north every night... The jealousy of a wife is really scary, at all.
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