Genji, who was only 5 years younger, was taught that Fujitsubo looked exactly like his dead mother and became attached to her, continued to yearn for her and gradually came to love her as his ideal lady.
藤壺が亡き母によく似ていると教えられ、5歳違いの彼女に懐いた源氏は、元服後も彼女を慕い続けて、次第に理想の女性として恋するようになる。