Text(Edward G. Seidensticker; The Tale of Genji)) |
<The Sacred Tree> P207-38 They had become in every way a nunnery: the blinds and curtains, all a drab, gray-green, glimpses of gray and yellow sleeves−melancholy and at the same time quietly, mysteriously beautiful. <The Jeweled Chaplet> P407-18 For the lady of the locust shell, now a nun, he selected a most dignified habit of a deep blue-gray, a yellow singlet of his own, and a lavender jacket. He sent around messages that everyone was to be in full dress. |