蓮の花の盛りに女三の宮持仏供養。訪れてきた源氏、扇の蓮の花にかけた歌を書く。

While the lotuses are in full bloom, the Third Princess makes an offering to her private Buddha; Genji, visiting, writes a poem on a lotus flower on a fan.

十五夜の宵、若い尼たち、仏に花を供え、端近くいる女三の宮、鈴虫の声に耳を傾ける。

On the night of the full moon the young nuns offer flowers to the Buddha; the Third Princess, near the edge, listens to the bell crickets.

女三の宮を訪れた源氏、琴を弾く。 奥では若い尼たち、仏壇供養。そこへ殿上人たちも集まってきて、鈴虫の宴となる。

Genji, visiting the Third Princess, plays the koto; within, the young nuns make offerings at the altar; courtiers gather and it becomes a bell-cricket banquet.

そこへ殿上人たちも集まってきて、鈴虫の宴となる。

Courtiers also gather there, and it becomes a bell-cricket banquet.

同夜、源氏や集まっていた公達ら、冷泉院の月見の宴に招かれる。源氏と冷泉院、月光の下で語り合う。

The same night, Genji and the noblemen gathered are invited to Emperor Reizei's moon-viewing banquet; Genji and Reizei talk under the moonlight.

夏、尼となった女三の宮の持仏開眼供養が営まれる。十五夜の月明かりの下、源氏は女三の宮の庭に放たれた鈴虫の音を愛でながら管弦の宴を開き、冷泉院の招きを受けて夜更けまで語り合う。母・六条御息所の怨霊が成仏できずに苦しんでいることを知った秋好中宮は出家を願うが、源氏はこれを押し留め、手厚い法華八講を修して御息所の冥福を祈る。

Genji dedicates the Buddhist image for the tonsured Onna San no Miya. On a moonlit autumn evening, he listens to bell-crickets released in her garden and plays the zither before visiting Retired Emperor Reizei for an intimate conversation late into the night. Troubled that her mother Rokujo's wandering spirit finds no peace, Empress Akikonomu considers taking holy vows, but Genji dissuades her, sponsoring elaborate sutra-reading assemblies to pray for Rokujo's soul.

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