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])These things partly name a “missing” section that may have encouraged readers 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 omits that chapter named for these things, after which the “transition” (10[1])and “Uji” chapters depict Niou and Kaoru’s feud. These things title an oddly-formatted chapter in an eleventh-century novel that likely signifies the hero’s death. For 10 points, name these things into which the hero is implied to “vanish” in a blank chapter from The Tale of Genji. ■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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Cry of the Common Loon5515
Eve FleisigBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs8315
Tim MorrisonStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku10210

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%67%0%80.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%20%116.60
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%0%17%108.83
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%33%109.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%91.33