After a banquet to enjoy the beauty of cherry blossoms at Shishinden, Hikaru Genji stops Oborozukiyo looking at the moon. They spend the night together and say goodbye to each other just before dawn. Oborozukiyo is a daughter of Hikaru Genji's political enemy. Later the relationship between the two is revealed and Hikaru Genji decides to leave Kyoto for Suma to discipline himself.