Fujitsubo, afraid that their affairs would be laid bare and that it would plunge Emperor Reizei into a crisis, suddenly becomes a Buddhist nun after the first year's anniversary of Emperor Kiritsubo's death, without telling either Genji or any other member of her family about it.
事が露見し冷泉帝の身に危機が及ぶことを恐れた藤壺は、源氏にも身内にも知らせず桐壺帝の一周忌の後突然出家した。