In which Genji loves the one he's with.
So, as we begin this chapter, Genji is complaining to Utsusemi's brother (Kogemi) about how cruel and hateful she is, and not even Kogemi's pleasing slenderness can console him.
So Kogemi is looking for a good opportunity to bring them together, and one evening when the Governor of Kii has gone off somewhere, he takes Genji to the house to see her.
Utsusemi is there, playing Go with her friend Nokiba no Ogi (also Kii's sister), who happens to be tall, nicely rounded, and "striking in head and forehead", whatever that means. She's not quite as graceful or pretty as Utsusemi, but she has exquisite manners and is apparently cleverer. Genji thinks she is pretty hot.
Anyway, these midnight trysts are always confusing, but what I think happens is that Genji sneaks into Utsusemi's room after everyone's asleep, but she sneaks out at the last minute, leaving Nokiba there, and since she's there, and he's there, Genji has sex with her instead. Why not?
He kind of feels guilty about it, but not that guilty, and then he finds a robe that Utsusemi left behind, so he steals it and takes it home. And then, because he's kind of a kinky dude, he puts the robe on under his clothes, and lies down in his bed with Kogimi and is all, "man, I don't know if I can keep liking you if your sister's going to be such a bitch."
But he still writes her another poem, and doesn't write one to Nokiba, and Utsusemi is mad and Nokiba is ashamed and Kogimi is stuck in the middle and that's pretty much the end of the chapter.
