The title of this chapter was derived from the waka poem that Genji composed, 'My love lives on as it did long ago, but tendril wreath, what winding stem led you to me?'
巻名は光源氏が詠んだ和歌「恋ひわたる身はそれなれど玉かづらいかなる筋を尋ね来つらむ」に因む。