We gather later that she was only nineteen.

I.e. covered part of his face with a scarf or the like, a practice usual with illicit lovers in mediæval Japan.

Shin Kokinshū, 1701.

Lady Rokujō.

To summon a servant.

The bringing of a corpse. Temples were used as mortuaries.

I.e. pursued illicit amours.

Pilgrimages to Kiyomizu Temple are made on the seventeenth day.

Chūjō means ‘Captain’; see above, p. 71.

From Tō no Chūjō’s wife, who was the daughter of the Minister of the Right.