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The pillow-book of Sei Shōnagon

Note 35 — JAPAN IN THE TENTH CENTURY

Arthur Waley translation

To the Analects of Confucius: ‘If you are wrong, don’t stand on ceremony with yourself, but change!’ Yukinari thinks that Shōnagon is inviting him to take liberties with her.

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