The theme of the pleasure of wearing a costume completely different from reality and the theme of the transmigration of the soul are often illustrated during the late Heian and Kamakura period.The people of this time were ready to accept "disguise" as a new, independent theme. During these eras, for the same reason, the stories of the boy child born out of wedlock who disguises himself as a child of another family became popular. In the monogatari world at the end of the Heian era and through the Kamakura era, a boy born out of wedlock is raised by his father's family. Mitamura Masako points out for the reasonable explanation for the rise of the paternal family system. However, there lies the contradiction that if the child is brought up by his father's family, there is no pointin his preteding to be a member of another family. As a result, the plot of monogatari is poor and weak because of this contridiction. Each monogatari during this era is based on the tension created by the attempt at resolving this contradiction. The principles of the paternal family system urged that the all plots in contemporary monogatari be changed.
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