 By showing love scenes between two men or two women, albeit with one partner playing the role of the opposite sex, Kawai believes the author attempted to show that "a man is lovelier when his feminine side is revealed" and also that "a woman becomes more beautiful when she shows her masculine side".When the Chūnagon repairs to Uji to have her baby by the suggestion of Saisho, she is overcome by depression.When she reaches Kohata, where she might escape notice, she decides "to reveal she is female".