While Genji hurried to prepare for Tamakazura's Mogi (coming-of-age ceremony for girls), he asked her biological father, Minister of the Palace, to act as koshi-yui (one who ties a band around the young woman's waist in the ceremony). |
源氏は玉鬘の裳着を急ぐかたわら、実父内大臣に腰結いの役を頼む。 |