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The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories

Note 36 — A LETTER FROM JAPAN

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Footnote 36:

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Kōgai is the name now given to a quadrangular bar of tortoise-shell passed under the coiffure, which leaves only the ends of the bar exposed. The true hair-pin is called kanzashi.

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