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An analog photo of (sks woman:1), feudal 1500s Japan, The Daimyō’s Daughter, Waiting Her hair is styled in a formal shimada, held in place with amber combs and a lacquered hairpin carved like a peony. She wears a five-layered kimono, the outermost robe pale celadon with painted cranes, underlayers peeking in shades of peach, ivory, and charcoal plum. Her obi is stiff and gold-threaded, tied in a perfect fan knot. She sits on the wooden engawa, watching the snow fall silently into the gravel courtyard. Not even the koi stir in the pond beneath the frozen surface. He promised to return before the new year. The ink on his last letter has already faded.