Because of his grief, he once approached Nakanokimi (second daughter of Hachinomiya and younger sister from the same mother of Oigimi; wife of Nioumiya) in Uji and, later, took Ukifune (Genji Monogatari) (younger sister from a different mother of Oigimi and Nakanokimi) who looked exactly like Oigimi and was brought up in the countryside, as katashiro (representation of a sacred object) and kept her in a mansion in Uji.
その傷心から一時は宇治の中の君（八の宮の次女で大君の同母妹、匂宮の妻）に迫り、さらにその後大君に生き写しの田舎育ちの娘浮舟(源氏物語)（大君と中の君の異母妹）を形代にし、宇治の邸に囲わせる。