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Genji

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Genji

Alternative name for Minamoto, an ancient Japanese clan. Prince Genji, ‘the shining prince’, is the hero of one of Japan's best-known literary works, Genji Monogatari/The Tale of Genji, whose author is known as Murasaki.



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The story of ``Genji'' is loosely based on the Taira-Minamoto War in Japan's late 1100s, when the Genji clan was subdued by Kiyomori Taira, the head of the Taira clan.
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