[2] The dead Aoi, Genji’s first wife.
[3] Hyōbukyō’s wife. Murasaki was his illegitimate daughter.
[4] Genji.
[5] See vol. i, pp. 253 seq.
[6] The distance is about 60 miles. It could, says Moto-ori, in no circumstances have been covered in one day. He therefore concludes that the travellers spent a night at Naniwa (the modern Ōsaka) on the way. A much more probable solution is that Murasaki was herself rather vague about the time which such a journey would take.
[7] Near Naniwa. It was here that the returning Vestals of Ise lodged on their way back to the Capital.
[8] China.
[9] For the story of his exile, see the Nō play Matsukaze in my Nō Plays of Japan, p. 268.
[10] See Nō Plays of Japan, p. 268.
[11] See vol. i, pp. 137 seq.