Word: ayakuras
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Japanese upper class and their retainers; most of the novel's events take place in 1912. The hero is a handsome, dreamy youth named Kiyoaki Matsugae, who belongs to a rich samurai family but has spent his boyhood in the household of some splendidly effete aristocrats named Ayakura. There he acquired "elegance" and the desire to live for emotion alone, "like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind...
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