Genji was back in power and promoted to naidaijin (minister of the interior), adopted the saigu and took part in politics via the Emperor's inner court and supported her entry into court as nyogo (emperor's consort) to the eleven-year-old Emperor Reizei, who was his biological son.
復権した源氏は内大臣に昇進、斎宮を養女に迎えて後宮政治に乗り出し、実の子である11歳の冷泉帝の元へ女御として入内させた。