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At Uji, some miles to the southeast of Kyoto, the Eighth Prince lived quietly with two daughters. One warm spring day, looking out over the garden, they made poems on the mallards, which were swimming about the pond. In earlier years, he had considered these small creatures as uncertain existence, which only lived in vain on the surface of water. Now, after his wife had died, he felt something like jealousy towards them chattering happily to each other wing to wing. He had renounced the world and taken charge of bringing up his daughters. He thought that life was uncertain, which had affected the way of thinking of his daughters since their childhood.
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