"When I imagine the grassy fields spreading out like
a green carpet, with thick forests far away on the
horizon, and envision the outrageously decorated
appearance of those ladies, so totally unsuited to
life in the country, as they wend their way among
the fields; I see how beautiful that was in a way
that goes against God’s wishes. I realize this is the
ultimate in perverted, artificial beauty, and sigh with
rapture."
-Momoko in the Shimotsuma Monogatari novel.