Although Genji's anger builds up against Onna San no Miya and her lover Kashiwagi, he sees a newborn baby (Kaoru) and realizes that it is the fruit of the sin that he committed in his youth (karmic retribution). 一度は女三宮とその愛人の柏木に怒りをつのらせた源氏であったが、生まれた子ども(薫)を見て、これが若い日の罪の報いであったことに気づかされる(因果応報)。 |