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Yugiri frequently visited the widow of Kashiwagi, the Second Princess, to keep his word to his closest friend. Gradually he became impressed by her calmness. In the Fourth Month, reproaching her cold attitude, Yugiri gave her the intertwined branches of an oak (a symbol of Kashiwagi) and a maple with a poem: "By grace of the tree god let the branch so close to the branch that withered be close to the branch that lives". But she kept on seeing him formally from behind a curtain. His affectionate approach was an annoyance to her.
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