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Genji was suffering from malaria. He took four or five attendants along to visit a sage in the northern hills. He was a most accomplished worker of cures. Genji had once sent off a messenger to him, but the holy man replied that he was too old and unable to leave his place. The old man lived in a cave surrounded by rocks, high in the hill. The cherry blossoms had already fallen in the city, as it was late in the Third Month. But in the mountain, the cherry blossoms were at their best, which delighted Genji deeply.
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