Encumbered by many-layered robes and sequestered in their homes, the Japanese ladies were unable to do more than peep from behind their screens at the courtiers' mounted archery contests.
Because however many hotel robe-wearing incidents, private conversations, and settlements later, it is clear that his behavior was not just widespread, but also well documented.
Within the next half hour, four hundred or so people piled in, many in traditional robes.
Women in black robes, many with pro-Saleh visors yanked over their veils, poured into the city's biggest stadium through a specially designated gate.
Although the general standard is high and the fresh fish is excellent, the tendency is to robe many things in puff pastry, and when in doubt to bring on the crème pâtissière.
She is especially good at aesthetic detail: the exquisitely dyed shades of the Heian ladies' robes, many-layered in combinations with names like "Flowering Iris" and "Beneath the Snow"; the secret, inherited recipes for incense blends; the seasonal images slipped into 31-syllable waka poems and bounced from one poetic correspondent to the next.
In public, many wear long, dark robes and head scarves.
So one finds judicial candidates proclaiming party loyalty and, ultimately, too many mediocrities in black robes.
By noon, there were more than 1,000 shoeless followers inside, many dressed mostly in robes or loose outfits of thin white cotton.
We begin in the darkness, scores gathered around the clergy, a choir of acolytes and many more in brown robes, like old school friar's habits, some with hoods raised.
