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1!!The Greenaway film
2* GeniusBonus: Some scholars think that Sei Shōnagon's real name was Kiyohara or Kiyowara Nagiko.
3* NightmareFuel: Jerome's fate.
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5!!The book
6* MemeticMutation: The phrase ''ito okashi'' (how very lovely). Also the ''haru wa akebono…'' sentences from the first chapter.
7* ValuesDissonance: The snobbish attitudes among the aristocrats, especially toward peasantry would come off very unpleasant to modern readers.
8** Modern readers may find the importance of [[SeriousBusiness poetry]] in the Heian court rather outlandish; it was so important that there were pairs who got together, broke up, or rejected, all because their poem sound aesthetic or terrible.

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