The work contains no description regarding the time from his becoming a priest to his death, and the chapter of 'Kumogakure' (Vanished into the Clouds), which is suggestive of the death of Genji, but some say that the text was lost.
なお出家から死までは作中には描かれず、本文の存在しない「雲隠」が源氏の死を暗示するのみであるとも、また本文は失われたとも言われる。