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| 16 | 85 | Two trusted servitors were then View more quotes about informed">informed of the falling of the lot, that, in the case of an emergency, Lord Yamada might be expeditiously informed. |
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| 16 | 82 | I had already ascertained, of course, from the Pani slaves who were regularly sent to attend me, that the private quarters of Lord Yamada's higher women was located on the third level of the palace. |
| 16 | 83 | The private quarters of the shogun himself, as nearly as I could determine from the soon-somewhat-evasive answers of the Pani slaves, were frequently changed, he seldom occupying the same chambers two nights in a row. |
| 16 | 84 | Apparently ostraka were placed in a small pot and shaken, after which one would be drawn, that dictating the quarters of the evening. |
| 16 | 85 | Two trusted servitors were then informed of the falling of the lot, that, in the case of an emergency, Lord Yamada might be expeditiously informed. |
| 16 | 86 | Interestingly, it seemed that his daimyos did not have access to this information. |
| 16 | 87 | His palace slaves, of which Saru was doubtless one, and my Pani attendants others, had their quarters in a holding area maintained somewhere beneath the first level. |
| 16 | 88 | Most of the slaves from the holding of Lord Temmu who had been traded for rice might be anywhere, distributed to daimyos, warriors, and officers, sold, gifted, bartered, put in the fields, put to herding verr and tarsk, perhaps even being held somewhere, in pens or sheds, to be dispersed at a later date. |