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Ask prawns to translate Japanese.

Japanese literature has been a powerful medium for Japanese people to express their spirit since ancient times. Through literary research, we can understand the Japanese outlook on life, world view and the consciousness of pursuing beauty. By studying the aesthetic consciousness shown in The Tale of Genji, the pinnacle of Japanese literature, we can get a preliminary understanding of the colorful world of traditional oriental aesthetic theory.

Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of aesthetics in heian period dynasty. It is also the basis of Japanese traditional aesthetic consciousness. This paper divides the aesthetic consciousness shown in this work into four parts and discusses them one by one. Characters are like the soul of literary works. Character description is the best part of this book. There are countless characters in the work, but the description of women with different beauties and the central figure in this work is the most prominent. Tale of Genji describes different but representative characters. Dozens of people with distinctive personalities left a deep impression on people. When it comes to Japanese traditional aesthetic consciousness, there is an aesthetic tendency that is easy to die out.