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Blue trousers

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By Murasaki Shikibu
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The fourth section follows an influential courtier who seeks a secure future for his ward while managing gossip, rival ambitions, and fragile friendships. Parallel plots trace his son's thwarted love and the social maneuvering of powerful families, and episodes explore marriage negotiations, clandestine passions, and a haunting episode of domestic madness. Alternation between public ceremonies and private confidences exposes how reputation, rank, and desire shape decisions and fortunes. The narrative links discrete incidents into a portrait of court life that emphasizes responsibility, emotional restraint, and the personal costs of power and longing.

Transcriber’s Notes

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Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the eBook.

Misspelled and missing words have been corrected (see below). Archaic, inconsistent and alternative spellings have been left unchanged. Hyphenation has not been standardised.

Punctuation has been silently corrected.

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“Edit Distance” in Corrections table below refers to the Levenshtein Distance.

Corrections:

Page Source Correction Edit distance
122 twelth month twelfth month 1
321 XII CHAPTER XII 8