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Winter clothes are begun on the first day of the tenth month.
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From a poem to a dead lady, by Liu Yü-hsi (a.d. 772–842).
I saw you first standing at the window of Yü Liang’s tower; Your waist was slender as the willow-trees that grow at Wu-ch‘ang. My finding you and losing you were both like a dream; Oh tell me if your soul dwells in the rain, or whether in the clouds above! end stanza end poem end container
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A husband in mourning may not wear winter clothes. The mourning lasts for three months.
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Fujitsubo.