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The tale of Genji

Note 9 — Chapter II · THE BROOM-TREE

Arthur Waley translation

See Encyclopédia de la Musique, p. 247. Under the name Nan-lü this mode was frequently used in the Chinese love-dramas of the fourteenth century. It was considered very wild and moving.

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