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The year passed. Genji did not forget Yugao of the evening faces, who had died suddenly a long time ago. Her daughter went down to Dazaifu at the age of four, because the nurse's husband had been appointed deputy viceroy of Kyushu and the family had gone off with him to his post. Not knowing of her death, they prayed for information of any sort about the mother. They could not find any way to seek her father, To-no-Chujo. The nurse finally decided that she would keep the child to remember the mother by. When they set off, the child asked "Are we going to mother's?" The nurse and her daughter wept.
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