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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.

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