Question

While mourning an imperial consort, a man writes a poem about how these things appear like the “dark folds of a mourner’s dress” in a chapter named for a “rack” or “wreath” of these things. These material things partly title a novel in which a Buddhist disciple marries eight reincarnated fairies before waking from a dream. (15[1]-5[1])These things partly name a “missing” section that may have encouraged readers (15[1])to “flee the world” in favor of monastic life, per the study Seeds in the Heart. (15[1])They aren’t bell crickets, but (*) Arthur Waley’s translation (10[1])omits that chapter (10[1])named for these (10[1])things, (10[1]-5[1])after (-5[1])which (10[1])the “transition” (10[1])and “Uji” (10[1])chapters (10[2])depict (10[1])Niou and Kaoru’s feud. (10[2])These things title an oddly-formatted chapter (10[1])in an eleventh-century novel that likely signifies the hero’s death. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])these things into which the hero is implied to “vanish” in a blank chapter from The Tale of Genji. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: clouds [or kumo; accept Usogumo; accept “Vanished into the Clouds” or Kumogakure; accept Nine Cloud Dream or The Cloud Dream of the Nine or Kuunmong; accept “A Wreath of Cloud” or “A Rack of Clouds”]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Will AlstonWalston et. al.NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)55-5
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Cry of the Common Loon5515
Omer KeskinCien Años de QuizboledadGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz6715
Eve FleisigBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs8315
Emmett Lauriejeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubCope is the thing with feathers9110
Andrew HartBHSU RebirthClown Senpais9410
Oliver HargraveDefying SuavityCambridge9710
Mike BentleyMusic to Help You Stop Smokinghawk two of98-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha9810
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange99-5
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Northeast by Northwestern10010
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku10210
Matt BollingerBHSU ReFantazioThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days10410
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut10510
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 10510
Eshan Pantjust one more half-dot bro12 Litres of Green Tea10610
Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Notre Dame11010
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesLimp Franceskit11010
Annabelle YangWashUClown Squad11610
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers12610
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofMusic to Help You Stop Smoking12910
Hazel Depreist-SullivanNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)Walston et. al.13010
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit14910