Excerpt from The Old Bamboo-Hewer's Story (Taketori No Okina No Monogatari): The Earliest of the Japanese Romances, Written in the Tenth Century Anciently the hair was allowed to fall in long tresscs on either shoulder. At the age of 13 or 14 these were brought up and fastened in a sort of knot on the crown or side of the head. The custom is alluded to in a tanks of the Manyoshu (the Myriad Leaves - eu Anthology of the tenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...
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Excerpt from The Old Bamboo-Hewer's Story (Taketori No Okina No Monogatari): The Earliest of the Japanese Romances, Written in the Tenth Century Anciently the hair was allowed to fall in long tresscs on either shoulder. At the age of 13 or 14 these were brought up and fastened in a sort of knot on the crown or side of the head. The custom is alluded to in a tanks of the Manyoshu (the Myriad Leaves - eu Anthology of the tenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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