Then Yugiri appeared as a messenger for his father, Hikaru Genji, and he offered thoroughwort flowers to her on the pretext of kinship, confessing his secret love for her, but she did not take him seriously.
そこへ夕霧が父光源氏の使いで訪れ、従兄弟の縁に事寄せフジバカマの花を差し出しつつ、秘めていた想いを訴えたが、玉鬘は取り合わない。