WHAT TO DO WITH CHARACTERS TOO NUMEROUS TO REMEMBER IN THE TALE OF GENJI 
APPENDED TO LECTURE NOTES FOR SEVENTH WEEK: 'SUICIDE, AMNESIA, AND THE BOBBING BOAT.' 
Chapters 34-41, 42-50, 51-54 

REMEMBER THAT MAJOR CHARACTERS OCCUR AS PAIRS, EXCHANGING POEMS AND CONVERSATION. 
THERE ARE MANY CHARACTERS, BUT THEY ARE NEVER ON THE STAGE AT THE SAME TIME.

MOST EVENT IN THE TALE OF GENJI IS ONE-TO-ONE, THAT IS, IN A CAST OF THOUSANDS, 
THE TETE-TO-TETE, IN THE BEDROOM OR THE BACKGROUND, IS THE PRIMARY MODE OF ACTION.  
HERE IS A LIST OF WHAT I PERCEIVE TO BE THE MAIN COUPLES IN EACH GROUP OF CHAPTERS. 
WHERE APPROPRIATE, THE PAIRING IS INDICATIVE OF PRIMARY POEM EXCHANGES. 
I GIVE THE PAGINATION FOR THE SEIDENSTICKER TRANSLATION ONLY.

WEEK  FIVE - CHAPTERS 34-41

34 WAKANA-JO - Murasaki to Genji (S 555)
			again	      (S 564)
		   Akashi women (3) (S 571)
		   Kashiwagi to Yugiri (S 585)

35 WAKANA-GE - Kashiwagi to Third Princess (S 615)
		   Murasaki to Genji (S 621)

36 KASHIWAGI - Kashiwagi to Third Princess (S 637-39)
		   Yugiri to Ochiba no miya (S 655)

37 YOKOBUE - Kashiwagi in Yugiri*s dream (S 663)

38 SUZUMUSHI - Third Princess to Genji (S 672)

39 YUGIRI - Yugiri to Second Princess (S 679)
		three times

40 MINORI - Murasaki to Akashi Lady (S 714)
	      Murasaki to Genji to Akashi (S 717) deathbed trio

41 MABOROSHI - Genji (many times) to himself. (S 733-34).

WEEK SIX - CHAPTERS 42-50

42 NIOU MIYA - Kaoru to himself (only poem of chapter)  (S 737)

43 KOBAI - Kobai to Niou (first of two homoerotic exchanges ) (S747)
	    Niou to Kobai (S 749)
	    Kobai to Niou and Niou to Kobai (S 749)

44 TAKEKAWA - Saisho to Kaoru (evidence of Kaoru*s lack of erotic interest in 
		  women (S 754-55)
		   Kaoru to the Chamberlain (S 758)
		   Kaoru*s poem in a letter to the Chamberlain (S 762)
		   Kaoru to Fuji no jiju (same sex stuff again) (S 766)

45 HASHIHIME - Kaoru to Oigimi (theme poems ) (S 790-91)
		   
46 SHII GA MOTO - Eighth Prince to Kaoru and his reply (S 805)
		     Kaoru to Oigimi and her reply(as if in a trance) (S 812)
		     Kaoru to himself (S 813)
		     Oigimi to Kaoru and his reply (S 816)
		     Kaoru to himself (a marriage vow to Prince Hachi) (S 817)

47 AGEMAKI - Kaoru to Oigimi and her reply (S 822-23)
		Kaoru to Oigimi and her reply (S 836-37)
		Kaoru to Oigimi and her reply (S 841)
		Kaoru to Oigimi and her reply (S 844)
		Kaoru to himself (three times ) (S 868-69)

48 SAWARABI - Niou to Kaoru and his reply (denotes his impotence) (S 874)
		  Ben to Kaoru and his reply (S 879)

49 YODORIGI - Kaoru to himself (S 893)
		Kaoru to Naka no kimi and her reply (S 894)
Kaoru as an attachment to a gift of kimono (jealousy and vindictiveness) (S 912)
Kaoru to Ben and her reply (his mother confessor substitute for the
the Eighth Prince) (S 921) also see exchange with Ben at the end of 
the next chapter (S 971)

WEEK SEVEN - CHAPTERS 50-54

50 AZUMAYA - Kaoru to Nakanokimi and her reply (S951)
		Kaoru to himself at the site of the hall he has built on the site of
		Prince Hachi*s house. Consider the parallel with Genji*s building
		of the Rokujo no in palace. A love song to the Eighth Prince. (S 963)
		Kaoru to himself (reminds one of Genji*s poem to the aged Naishi
		on (S 145-46)

51 UKIFUNE - Niou to Ukifune and her reply (her first to a man) (S 983)
		Kaoru to Ukifune and her reply (S 989-90)
		Niou to Ukifune and her reply (theme poems) (S 991)
		
52 KAGERO - Kaoru to himself on once again being abandoned by religion and 
		eroticism. (S 1026)
		exchanges between Kaoru and the ladies Chujo no omoto and Ben no
		omoto (playful yet accepting of his uncommon tastes in erotic 
		behaviour) (S.1037-38, poems 7-10.
		Kaoru to himself (theme poem) (S. 1042)

53 TENARAI - notice the possessing spirit who appears to Ukifune, this time a man, a
		monk. May this type of spirit not be closer to history and further
		from the fictionality of The Tale of Genji? Rokujo*s spirit may be
		very much a figment of Murasaki Shikibu*s mind.
		Ukifune to herself (twice) (S 1053)
		Ukifune to herself (twice) Once away from sin and the flesh, now 
		from herself, the ultimate and honest removal. (S 1069-70) Poems 16-
		17.
		Ukifune to herself. (S. 1075 #20) Consider this poem*s relation to 
		Genji*s last poem in the Maboroshi chapter <41
		Governor*s recollection of a poem Kaoru had written on a pillar in
		Prince Hachi*s house (S. 1077 #24) Again directed to Prince Hachi.
		
54 YUME NO UKIHASHI - Kaoru to Ukifune (S. 1089) Compare with spirit of
		Lady Kiritsubo*s farewell poem (S. 6). Only poem in chapter.