One day, he heard a rumor that there was a zokuhijiri (person who is engaged in Buddhist training without becoming a priest) in Uji City and visited the mansion of Uji Hachinomiya (Imperial Prince of the Emperor Kiritsubo, Hikaru Genji's younger brother from a different mother).
ある時宇治市に俗聖（出家せず俗のまま戒律を守り仏道修行する人）がいるという噂を聞き、宇治八の宮（桐壺帝の皇子、光源氏の異母弟）邸を訪れる。