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A candid photograph of (sks woman:1), Feudal Japan, 17th century, The Moon-Viewing Pavilion The wind rustles through the reed blinds of the garden pavilion as she arranges porcelain sake cups on a lacquered tray. Her kimono is woven from raw silk the color of persimmon peel, with a cream obi embroidered in faint silver clouds, tied in a wide drum knot at her back. A thin hitoe underrobe peeks from beneath the layered collar. She kneels on a tatami mat spread with chrysanthemum petals, watching the harvest moon rise above the black outline of tiled roofs and swaying pampas grass. Somewhere behind the screen, poetry is being written. But she already knows how this story ends.