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The main character, Genji, was a prodigy/prince who used his beauty and charm to seduce women and kidnap girls. One, named Murasaki, was a ten-year-old whom he made a [[child bride]].<ref>Arnold, Mary, "[http://{{e}}zinearticlesezinearticles.com/?Female-Resistance-to-Male-Authority,-Part-One&id=147595 Female Resistance to Male Authority, Part One], Mary Arnold]</ref>
In his old age he dies miserably:
*Murasaki dies two or three years later, in her early forties. Genji, then in his early fifties, survives her as a mere shell of his former self. It appears that after the reader sees him for the last time, he leaves the world, retires to a [[Buddhist]] temple, and dies within a year or two. <ref>[http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/taleofgenji/introduction3.html]</ref>
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