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Scenes

1. 1For Genji's fortieth-year celebration, the Waka Lady prepares and celebrates with all her heart; the young lord Wakagami accompanies the offering of young herbs, and poems are exchanged.
2. 2After the Third Princess's marriage, Murasaki is joyless; drawing the inkstone near, she composes a poem; Genji, perplexed, lies down.
3. 3On a snowy early morning Genji, returning to Murasaki from the Third Princess's, knocks at the shut lattice, but the ladies, though aware, do not open for a while.
4. 4On a snowy morning Genji sends a letter attached to a plum branch to the Third Princess; Genji watches the snow near the edge, a warbler on the plum, Murasaki within.
5. 5Genji leaves Oborozukiyo's residence at dawn; he draws his carriage up to the garden where wisteria is in full bloom.
6. 6In the tenth month, for Genji's fortieth celebration, Murasaki offers to the Yakushi Buddha at the Saga chapel, then holds a grand feast at Nijo-in; that night the musicians go home along the pond with white reward robes on their shoulders.
7. 7The Third Princess, watching noble youths play kemari under the cherry blossoms, is seen by Kashiwagi through a gap in the blinds a cat happened to pull open.