Traditional garments (like the kimono) or settings are often used visually to emphasize her loss of status or purity. Why It Appeals to Readers

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However, critics argue that this ideal is not only outdated but also limiting, as it:

Yamato looked up at him. She saw the scars of a man who had lived through the winters her husband only wrote poems about. There was a primal, terrifying honesty in the enemy's gaze that her world of etiquette lacked.