§ After telling Lucy to close the connection, I looked up at Genette, still standing by. “Do you have any questions?” My unflappable Lady’s Maid merely stated, “I have always known that Your Grace is extraordinary, so I only have one.” I smiled and asked, “What is it?” “Are you in fact your own great-grandmother, Your Grace? Her Grace the ...
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When she was still Robert, Tiana never learned the proper name for the Japanese-style style of sleepwear she mentions in this chapter, so she's always calling it a 'yukata'.
It's the wrong word, although it's right for the thin robe the maids provide her to go over lingerie, which is the bathing robe of Japan.
The correct word for the yukata-like Japanese sleepwear is "nemaki". Which, if literally translated from Japanese, is, in fact, 'sleepwear'. They are very similar to the 'kimono robe' one can find in the West, which is nothing like a kimono.
One of the freebies at nice hotels in Japan is the nemaki provided along with your bedsheets. They're for sleeping. Don't walk around in the hallway in them.
Meanwhile, even though 'yukata' is wrong for nemaki, it's still correct for the Japanese outdoor kimono-like summer wear seen in summer festival anime episodes, which is different from the bathing yukata, but for some reason goes by the same name.
Confusion all around, I guess.
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