Nioumiya, who became impatient when he saw Kaoru was humming an old waka poem with Ukifune in his mind at the night of the court poetry reading, revisited Uji despite it snowing, abducted Ukifune to a hideaway located on the other side of the Yodo-gawa River and spent two days there.
宮中の詩宴の夜、浮舟を思って古歌を口ずさむ薫の様子に焦りを覚えた匂宮は、雪を冒して再び宇治に赴き、浮舟を淀川対岸の隠れ家へ連れ出し、そこで二日間を過ごした。