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In the middle of September, the Rokujo lady went down to Ise to escort her daughter. The family expected that she should be the empress in the future, so she had become the late crown prince's wife at sixteen. But at twenty he had left her behind. Now at thirty she left for Ise, filled with all these memories.
As the carriages of the ladies were lined up before the mansion of Genji, he sent a poem to be attached to a sacred tree. Then he spent the day alone, sunk in a sad reverie.
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