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Taeko-san!
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Quit that!
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And thus began my second experience with country life.
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How can such a vivid crimson color be born from this flower?
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Kiyoko 'ne-san [my sister-in-law, Kiyoko] once told me a sad story
that goes with it.
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Long ago, there were no such things as rubber gloves.
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When the young girls picked the flowers with their bare hands, they
were pricked by the thorns and bled. The blood turned the color
deeper crimson.
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I felt as if I heard the hostile feeling the girls, who never got to
put the red color on their lips, must have had against the women in
Kyoto that wore it.
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In order to get a handful of rouge, 60 heads of flowers are necessary.
That shining, iridescent color had the same value as gold back then,
I've heard.