Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

Taishō no Kimi conceives a child with him as he leaves for China and upsets her father's plans for a good match for her, becoming a Buddhist nun instead.

The Chūnagon becomes the darling of the Chinese court, and falls in love with the mother of his father's rebirth, the half-Japanese Hoyang Consort.

She bears him a son, whom he brings back to Japan to live with the Hoyang Consort's mother, the Yoshino Nun.

Chūnagon dreams of the Hoyang Consort being very sick, and soon he is told by a spirit that she died and is now in the Buddhist heavenly realm called Trāyastriṃśa.

The Hoyang Consort appears to Chūnagon in a dream, and tells him that she has been reborn within the Yoshino Princess's unborn child.

In one example, Katō found it "difficult to the point of impossibility" to guess the emotions of the Hamamatsu Chunagon on meeting his reborn father.

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