When Emperor Suzaku was going to renounce the world, he felt pity for the young and innocent Onna San no Miya, who had lost her own mother and had no guardian, and determined to marry her to Genji, who had been reduced to the status of a subject but had been made a Jun Daijo tenno (quasi ex-emperor).
出家することになった朱雀院が、うら若い女三宮に母も亡く後見人もいないことを不憫に思い、准太上天皇となっていた源氏への降嫁を決断した。