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... wedding, the stone steps are covered with brand new red carpets. Ahead is the worship hall with red lacquered pillars, flanked on both sides by priests and musicians performing Gagaku. Just as Kitagawa Ryoko squeezed in, she saw the priest preparing a maidservant for the wedding ceremony.
Green branches of the Japanese sweet gum tree moved back and forth above the maidservant’s bowed head, and the three little bells hanging from the branches chimed crisply. After reciting the prayer, the ...
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