It was a poem written on thin purple paper:

Friends for many years,
Yet now your perfume haunts
My last night’s sleeves
That never lay on yours.
When my attendants read this they gossiped among themselves about how different I was from most young people these days. [1.1]

sad girl



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From The Confessions of Lady Nijō, translated by Karen Brazell - About this site