While her mother Yugao is hiding herself from Tono Chujo's legal wife, who threatened her, she meets Genji, but dies an accidental death in their secret meeting.
母夕顔は頭中将の正妻に脅され姿を隠していた時に源氏と出逢い、逢瀬の途中に不慮の死を遂げる。