A pictorial subject taken from "Niou no miya" ("His Perfumed Highness" or "Prince Niou"), Chapter 42 of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji). The prince Niou is son of the reigning emperor and Genji's daughter, the Empress Akashi, Akashi no Chūgū 明石中宮. This chapter serves to introduce the two main protagonists in the last part of the tale, Prince Niou and Kaoru 薫, the latter being Genji's purported youngest son but actually the child of his wife, the Third Princess Onna San no Miya 女三宮, and *Kashiwagi 柏木. The episode most frequently chosen for illustration from this chapter is the procession of *Yūgiri 夕霧 to the Rokujō 六条 mansion with Niou, Kaoru and many others in a light snow flurry after an archery match, noriyumi 賭弓 in the First Month.
