Genji has their first sexual relationship with her after his first legal wife Aoi no ue passes away, and after that she is treated as his legal wife ('Aoi' (hollyhock)).
光源氏の最初の正妻である葵の上の没後に、源氏と初床となり以後公に正妻同様に扱われる（「葵_(源氏物語)」）。