This gorgeous, elegant, elaborate outfit that both Japanese men and women wore as a matter of routine till the early 20th C is now more prevalent in Japanese museums than in Japanese closets.

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On the third floor of a handsome apartment building with an antique lift, the elegant Anichkov Pension has six rooms and one gorgeous apartment.

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Modern Library's is the more elegant, inviting translation, but Wesleyan's has the advantage of including all 150 of the gorgeous woodcuts created for the original French 1870 version.

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