Rashomon Gate
“It was only mid-afternoon and, like most of the other inhabitants of the capital, he had the rest of the day and night off.
Crowds of people were strolling, shopping or sampling food in restaurants or at open stalls. On Suzaku Avenue, smiling celebrants passed back and forth in their best clothes, hollyhock blooms everywhere: in their hats, their sashes, on the saddles and in the bridles of their horses, draped about the horns of their oxen and threaded through the curtains of their carriages. ...The "good people" rode to parties or picnics, and the commoners walked towards the markets or the willow quarter. And everywhere there was merriment: old men sat on temple steps, smiling and nodding to passersby; normally sober officials walked with jaunty steps; and young lovers giggled, holding hands and looking into each other's eyes.
Tora approved but felt lonely. He looked wistfully after the pretty girls with their young admirers. There had been a coy little maid at the Hirata house who had given him a long appraising look when he had helped her mistress down.MoreLess
Crowds of people were strolling, shopping or sampling food in restaurants or at open stalls. On Suzaku Avenue, smiling celebrants passed back and forth in their best clothes, hollyhock blooms everywhere: in their hats, their sashes, on the saddles and in the bridles of their horses, draped about the horns of their oxen and threaded through the curtains of their carriages. ...The "good people" rode to parties or picnics, and the commoners walked towards the markets or the willow quarter. And everywhere there was merriment: old men sat on temple steps, smiling and nodding to passersby; normally sober officials walked with jaunty steps; and young lovers giggled, holding hands and looking into each other's eyes.
Tora approved but felt lonely. He looked wistfully after the pretty girls with their young admirers. There had been a coy little maid at the Hirata house who had given him a long appraising look when he had helped her mistress down.MoreLess
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