源氏、乳母の家の隣家の垣に咲く夕顔を随身に手折らすと、内より童女が出てきて、花を載せるための扇を差し出す。半蔀を上げたところより女たち、源氏の車を眺める。

Genji has his attendant pick an evening glory blooming on the fence of his nurse's neighbor; a girl comes out and offers a fan to hold the flowers, while women watch his carriage from the raised shutter.

源氏、惟光に紙燭を持たせて扇をみると、女の移り香が染み、歌が書石の入道の娘の話など、供人たちが語るのを聞いた。

Genji has Koremitsu bring a lamp; on the fan he finds the woman's lingering scent and a poem, and hears attendants tell of the daughter of the stone-weaving recluse.

六条御息所を訪れた翌朝、源氏、廊まで送りに出た中将の君を振り返りみて歌を交わす。 庭で侍童が朝顔を摘んでいる。

The morning after visiting the Lady of Rokujo, Genji looks back at the Chujo no Kimi who saw him to the corridor and exchanges poems; a page picks morning glories in the garden.

夕顔の宿に泊まった源氏、変わらぬ愛を誓う。砧の音や祈る年老いた声などが聞こえる。

Genji stays at Yugao's lodging and pledges unchanging love; he hears fulling mallets and an old woman's prayers.

源氏は病に伏せる乳母の見舞いに訪れた五条の陋屋の隣家で、可憐な夕顔の花と扇を差し出す薄幸の女（夕顔）と出会う。身元を隠したまま逢瀬を重ねるが、ある秋の夜、某の院に夕顔を連れ出したところ、六条御息所の生霊が現れて夕顔を取り殺してしまう。源氏は深い哀痛に打ちひしがれ、後に夕顔が親友・頭中将の失踪した側室であったことを知る。

Visiting his sick nurse near Gojo, Genji notices evening glory blossoms on a modest fence and receives a fan inscribed with a poem from a mysterious woman (Yugao). They conduct a secret romance without disclosing their true identities, but during a night together at a deserted villa, the vengeful spirit of Lady Rokujo appears and strikes Yugao dead. Heartbroken, Genji later realizes that Yugao was the lost lover of his friend To no Chujo.

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