The dolls thus arrayed all wear the sumptuous court garb of the Heian period.

所有的玩偶皆身穿平安时代奢华的法官服装。

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Recovery of pure consciousness actually find themselves living in the Heian Kyoto.

恢复意识的纯发现自己竟身处平安时代的京都。

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I’d soon get used to the Heian ideal of feminine beauty, which demanded blackened teeth, plucked eyebrows, big hair and pale faces.

我会很快习惯平安时代的女性美标准，包括涂黑牙齿，拔除眉毛，以及涂白脸颊。

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Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing.

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In the late Heian era (893-1185), when the book is set, the ruling Fujiwara clan of upper-class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters to court at Kyoto, hoping that one would give birth to a crown prince and ensure their control of the imperial power.

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