The Duke in His Domain
Publication Details
Type:
Book
Publisher:
Penguin Modern Classics
Published:
1957
Reading Details
Pages:
50
Series:
Penguin Modern
#34
Reading History
1st read
July 16, 2026
Lawrence, Kansas (US)
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Notes/Quotes
Most Japanese girls giggle. The Litttle maid on the fourth floor of the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, was no exceptgion. Hilarity, and attempts to suppress it, pinked her cheeks (unlike the Chinese, the Japanese complexion more often than not has considerable color), shook her plump peony-and-pansy-kimonoed figure. There seemed to be no particular reason for this merriment; the Japanese giggle operates without apparent motivation.
Capote visits Marlon Brando in Kyoto, Japan, while he is there making the film Sayonnara.