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Between the cures and incantations during the daytime, Genji walked a few blocks in the nearby villages. He saw a wattle fence in front of a temple, which was of better workmanship than similar fences nearby. In the evening Genji took Koremitsu and went to see the place again. Behind the fence, he could see the nun reading a text spread out on an armrest. She was in her forties and looked cultivated. Then a pretty girl of perhaps ten ran in and complained to the nun in a weeping voice that Inuki had let her baby sparrows loose. That was the first time Genji saw the Murasaki-no-Ue.
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