kotefu

こてふ
Chapter: 24Age: Age 36 (March-April)Main character: Genji

In late spring, Empress Akikonomu's visit to the Rokujo-in is celebrated with lavish dragon-prowed boat excursions where maidens costume themselves as birds and butterflies. Suitors like Prince Hotaru and Kashiwagi bombard Tamakazura with passionate letters, but Genji himself finds his passion aroused, half-jestingly declaring his inappropriate affection to a thoroughly flustered Tamakazura.

Scenes

  1. 1Spring boat music at Rokujo-in; besides the garden in full bloom, boats with dragon and bird-head prows.
  2. 2For Empress Akikonomu's Buddhist service, Murasaki sends girls dressed as birds and butterflies as messengers, with cherries and kerria in gold and silver vases.
  3. 3Genji opens and reads the still-tied letter delivered to Tamakazura and asks Ukon who sent it.
  4. 4Visiting Tamakazura and pressing his suit, Genji on leaving lifts the blinds and recites a poem likening her to the bamboo in the garden.
  5. 5At dusk at Tamakazura's, Genji toys with tangerines piled with sweets on a box lid and recites a poem revealing his love.
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