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In this way [composing poems] we passed [the hours] talking idly. Afterwards this lady separated from the Court and left us. She remembered that night and sent me word—

It touched my heart, for I also was thinking of that night:

The Princess still called my stepmother by the name of Kazusa —Governor's lady. Father was displeased that that name was still used after she had become another man's wife, and he made me write to her about it:

One very bright night, after the full moon, I attended the Princess to the Imperial Palace. I remembered that the Heaven Illuminating Goddess was enthroned within, and wanted to take an opportunity to kneel before the altar. One moon-bright night 46