The Akashi Priest invited Genji to his residence and treated him hospitably, and tried to present his only daughter (Lady Akashi), who he had been thinking of marrying to a nobleman in the capital since long ago, to Genji.
入道は源氏を邸に迎えて手厚くもてなし、かねてより都の貴人と娶わせようと考えていた一人娘（明石の御方）を、この機会に源氏に差し出そうとする。