Taking the Vows of a Nun in a Novel

By 12 89, she has decided to leave her nunnery and travel to physically remove herself from the area of koto. Here, for once, we actually know why something happens in this narrative. At several earlier points in the text, lady nijo expresses an interest in a man called sago, a buddhist monk who had lived about a century earlier. Saigo too was a koto aristocrat by birth, who had taken up monastic vows,. He spent a good deal of time wandering outside the capital as a monk, observing the world and writing poetry based on what he saw. So clearly, this was all intended as a sort of homage to a figure she greatly