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While Genji had descended to Suma, no one took care for Suetsumuhana, the Princess Hitachi.
Her house was deteriorating. The owls hooted in the forest. The strange phantoms called Kodama appeared. The rushes were thick and wormwood touched the eaves; bindweed had firmly barred the gates. The boys deliberately drove their cows and horses around in the spring and summer. A typhoon blew down the galleries of her house. Even robbers passed, finding there nothing to see.
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