Though there are many suitors for the three princesses who finished Mogi (coming-of-age ceremony for girls), Dainagon has already had Oigimi go to the Reikeiden palace in order to make her a consort of the Crown Prince, and is planning to marry Naka no Kimi to Nioumiya this time.
裳着をすませた三人の姫君たちへの求婚者は多かったが、大納言は、大君を東宮妃とすべく麗景殿に参内させており、今度は中の君に匂宮を縁付けようと目論んでいる。