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* GeniusBonus: Some scholars think that Sei Shōnagon's real name was [[NamesTheSame Kiyohara or Kiyowara Nagiko]].

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* GeniusBonus: Some scholars think that Sei Shōnagon's real name was [[NamesTheSame Kiyohara or Kiyowara Nagiko]].Nagiko.
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** Modern readers may find the importance [[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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** 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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* FakeNationality: Nagiko is played by Vivian Wu, a Chinese actress born in Shanghai. Appropriately, in the film, Nagiko's mother is also from Shanghai.
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** Modern readers would find it ridiculous that [[SeriousBusiness poetry]] are taken seriously in the Heian court, so much that there were pairs who got together, broke up, or rejected, all because their poem sound aesthetic or terrible.

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** Modern readers would may find it ridiculous that the importance [[SeriousBusiness poetry]] are taken seriously in the Heian court, court rather outlandish; it was so much important that there were pairs who got together, broke up, or rejected, all because their poem sound aesthetic or terrible.
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* MemeticMutation: The phrase ''ito okashi'' (how very lovely). Also the ''haru wa akebono…'' sentences from the first chapter.

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!!The book
* ValuesDissonance: The snobbish attitudes among the aristocrats, especially toward peasantry would come off very unpleasant to modern readers.
** Modern readers would find it ridiculous that [[SeriousBusiness poetry]] are taken seriously in the Heian court, so much that there were pairs who got together, broke up, or rejected, all because their poem sound aesthetic or terrible.
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* FakeNationality: Nagiko is played by Vivian Wu, a Chinese actress born in Shanghai. Appropriately, in the film, Nagiko's mother is also from Shanghai.


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* GeniusBonus: Some scholars think that Sei Shōnagon's real name was [[NamesTheSame Kiyohara or Kiyowara Nagiko]].
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* FetishFuel: If the idea of writing on a naked body turns you on, this movie's for you.

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* NightmareFuel: Jerome's fate.

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\n!!The Greenaway film
* NightmareFuel: Jerome's fate.fate.
* FetishFuel: If the idea of writing on a naked body turns you on, this movie's for you.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: It's either one of the greatest films of the 1990s or the cancer that is killing cinema and doesn't even deserve to be called porn. There is nothing in between.

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* LoveItOrHateIt: It's either one of the greatest films of the 1990s or the cancer that is killing cinema and doesn't even deserve to be called porn. There is nothing in between.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: It's either one of the greatest films of the 1990s or the cancer that is killing cinema and doesn't even deserve to be called porn. There is nothing in between.

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* LoveItOrHateIt: It's either one of the greatest films of the 1990s or the cancer that is killing cinema and doesn't even deserve to be called porn. There is nothing in between.between.
* NightmareFuel: Jerome's fate.

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