[125] Genji Monogatari (Romance of Genji), chap, iii., Hakubunkwan Edition, p. 87.
[126] By Baron Suyematsu in 1881.
[127] A miko or witch called Teruhi is the subject of the play Sanja Takusen.
[128] Rokujō has left the “Burning House,” i. e. her material body. The “Three Coaches” are those of the famous “Burning House” parable in the Hokkekyō. Some children were in a burning house. Intent on their play, they could not be induced to leave the building; till their father lured them out by the promise that they would find those little toy coaches awaiting them. So Buddha, by partial truth, lures men from the “burning house” of their material lives. Owing to the episode at the Kamo Festival, Rokujō is obsessed by the idea of “carriages,” “wheels” and the like.
[129] One day Rokujō saw a coach from which all badges and distinctive decorations had been purposely stripped (hence, in a sense, a “broken coach”) standing before Yūgao’s door. She found out that it was Genji’s. For Yūgao, see p. [142].
[130] Rokujō went secretly to the Kamo Festival in a closed carriage.
[131] Words from an old dance-song or “saibara.”
[132] “That am a ghost,” but also “that have lost my beauty.”
[133] Alluding to Aoi’s pregnancy.
[134] A Sanskrit name for the “world of appearances.”