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The tale of Genji

Note 2 — Chapter III · UTSUSEMI

Arthur Waley translation

This name means ‘cicada ‘and is given to her later in the story in reference to the scarf which she ‘discarded as a cicada sheds its husk.’ But at this point it becomes grammatically important that she should have a name and I therefore anticipate.

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