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(99) Party in
ceivedawidetraininginmanyarts,suchassinging,dancing,music,andteaceremony,and
acquired a taste for fantastic dress, becoming to some degree the leaders of fashion among
respectable women. They were described in novels and plays in a very romantic light, as
the paragon of all womanly virtues, even of chastity, as in one play where one who has a
young lover is persuaded to marry an old
samurai
to free the young man from her influen-
ce. When he tries to get his former mistress to continue their old relationship with him, he
is summarily rejected.
