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Since the death of Aoi, Genji had stopped his visits to the Rokujo lady. She decided to go to Ise with her daughter. It was the beginning of September, and the departure date approached. Genji visited her at the temporary shrine at Sagano. The autumn flowers were gone and insects hummed weakly. A wind blew lonesome through the pine trees. The low wattle fence surrounded the shrines and the gate made of black wood gave an awesome dignity. The prince proffered a branch of the sacred tree, and told her in a poem: "With heart unchanging as this evergreen sacred tree, I entered." After talking through the night, her bitterness was erased.
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