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Genji was now seventeen; Rokujō twenty-four.
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The god of bridges. He built in a single night the stone causeway which joins Mount Katsuragi and Mount Kombu.
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Genji’s brother-in-law.
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His own palace.
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Foxes, dressed up as men, were believed to be in the habit of seducing and bewitching human beings.