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Episode 446 - In Days of Old, There Was a Man

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The Northern Fuji Wara - Chapters One Through Six

There is also a few sections of this text that seem to directly rebuke the northern fujiara. The empress in question is the nijo empress, also known as fujiara no takako. She is a daughter of the northernfuji wara and a consort emperor sewa. In chapter three through six are usually read as being about a childhood flirtation between her and nari hera,. This ends in narihera abandoning kioto out of grief at her engagement, and going east for a time. But the actual affair begins in chapter 65, which is far more explicit. Though it does not reference the nijos by name, the desc

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