There is an oral story in an old commentary ("Genchu saihisho") that it was the death of Hikaru Genji that was written about in this chapter, and that the chapter was sealed and burned by the order of the emperor at that time because people who read it became tired of life and entered into Buddhist priesthood one after another.
古注（『原中最秘抄』）にはこの巻には光源氏の死が描かれており、これを読んだ者たちが世をはかなんで次々と出家してしまったため時の天皇の命により内容を封印してしまった、焚書処分にしたとする伝承が記録されている。