Allusion to the old poem, ‘Does he know that since he left me my eyes are wet as the coat that the fishers ... left lying upon the shore?’

The visitor.

Lady Rokujō. Who she was gradually becomes apparent in the course of the story.

Lady Rokujō’s house.

Rokujō.

Genji was now seventeen; Rokujō twenty-four.

The god of bridges. He built in a single night the stone causeway which joins Mount Katsuragi and Mount Kombu.

Genji’s brother-in-law.

His own palace.

Foxes, dressed up as men, were believed to be in the habit of seducing and bewitching human beings.