Here the court ladies meet their end, trampled by horses and thrown into a well, in a brutal scene which equals Picasso’s
"
Guernica
"
in its inhuman chaos. Both literally and symbolically, the world of the
Tale of Genji
seems brought to an end.
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Here
the court ladies meet their end, trampled by horses and thrown into a well,
in a brutal scene which equals Picasso’s "Guernica"
in its inhuman chaos. Both literally and symbolically, the world of the
Tale
of Genji seems brought to an end.