| Although her marital affairs with Genj ended early on, she won his confidence due to her home-oriented and trustworthy personality, and reared Yugiri (Genji Monogatari) and Tamakazura (Genji Monogatari) functioning as their mother, and later took in one of Yugiri's children and nurtured the child as her grandchild. |
源氏とは早くから夫婦の営みは途絶えていたが、家庭的で信頼の置ける人柄を見込まれて夕霧 (源氏物語)と玉鬘 (源氏物語)の母代わりとなり、後には夕霧の子の一人を孫として引き取り愛育した。 |