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Listening to the music of the kote, Genji approached the main hall. When he leaned to the bamboo fence to see her closer, there was someone before him. He thought that it must be a young man who had come to see the Princess Hitachi and fell back in the shadows. Then the man talked to him: it was his friend To-no-Chujo. They left the palace together that evening. To-no-Chujo was puzzled when they parted, because Genji had gone neither to his Sanjo mansion where his wife lived or his own at Nijo. He followed Genji to find out where he would go. Genji regretted being thoughtless.
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