the genji story of the millennium love
the story takes place in echizen, a thousand years ago. the zi shibu (played by yoshinaga koshuri) married a husband who was much older than him and gave birth to a daughter, kenko. her husband died shortly after his marriage. zi has lived a widowed life and began to write the novel "the tale of genji". soon, master fujiwara called her to kyoto as her daughter akiko's teacher, hoping to train akiko to become the most suitable candidate for the queen. zishi entered the palace and continued to create "the story of genji" while telling akiko the story... this is a love story about genji's life. genji (played by yuki amani) is extremely handsome and has lost his mother since childhood. he married the daughter of the left minister, aoi, but he didn't love her. genji fell in love with her father's favorite concubine, barnacle, since she was a child, and she had an incest relationship. the barnacle became pregnant and had a child, which made both of them feel guilty. genji's accident
