Rokujo no Miyasudokoro is afraid of her own vicious spirit, so when her daughter becomes a high priestess, she decides to go down to Ise Province with her daughter, to confine and purify herself in the temporary shrine at Sagano.
六条御息所はみずからの生霊のおそろしさにおびえ、娘が斎宮となったのを機にともに伊勢国に下ることを決意し、嵯峨野の野宮に籠もって潔斎する。