Nobody really knows for sure, but all those white statues that have come down to us were originally brightly painted, so maybe very.
Nobody really knows for sure, but all those white statues that have come down to us were originally brightly painted, so maybe very.
It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between.
– Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), Tsurezure-Gusa (1340)