The jealous person is unconscious of the fatal effects which his jealousy is producing.
Members of the Imperial family were not allowed to leave the Capital without the consent of the Emperor.
A temporary building erected afresh for each new Virgin a few miles outside Kyoto. She spent several years there before proceeding to Ise.
The Chinese version of the Sanskrit Saddharma Pundarika Sutra; see Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 21.
The lying-in jacket.
These presents (ubuyashinai) were given on the third, fifth and ninth nights.
The ceremony of investing the newly elected officials.
Had she corresponded with someone who was in mourning, she would herself have become unclean and been disqualified from attending upon her daughter the Vestal Virgin.
Used in writing to people who were in mourning.
See p. 182.