Summary

Chapter XXXII, reveals that the grandson of Prince Genji has lived for an impossible amount of time. It recounts his interest in a book named One Hundred Beautiful Gardens and claims that he first became interested in the book “in the last decade of the Tokugawa” (75) which was in the 1800s. He became obsessed with discovering the location of one of the gardens described in the book and visiting it. Scholars were hired to attempt to track it down. In a search that lasted centuries, no one managed to discover the garden and many people attempted to convince him to give up on the quest. The garden described in the book was what he was searching for at the monastery. He had looked everywhere and not found it. He began to wonder if everyone who had suggested his obsession with finding the...