Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (浜松中納言物語), also known as Mitsu no Hamamatsu (御津の浜松), is an eleventh-century Japanese monogatari that tells about a chūnagon who discovers that his father has been reborn as a Chinese prince. He visits his reincarnated father in China and falls in love with the Hoyang Consort, consort of the Chinese Emperor and mother of his reborn father. The book originally comprised six chapters, but the first chapter has been lost.

The tale was written by a female author who employed several exotic locations in the work. The author considers the love between a parent and a child to be "deeper, lasting and more tender" than romantic love between a man and a woman, which follows traditional virtues of filial piety.

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