You're welcome. Kaiei doesn't know he's perfect, of course. Kaiei just does what he has to do and hopes for his elders' approval and in his own humble opinion screws up often enough because his brother is *still* a featherhead in spite of his best efforts.

As for the robe- I'm fuzzy on this, but I believe traditional Japanese dress was borrowed from China- Tang dynasty or Sung and I can never remember which, but Song seems the more likely. There's this (http://www.stylishcn.com/Chinese-ancient-costume-of-Tang-dynasty-style-and-wedding-man-m-p-176.html) image which seems to be the kind of robe Goujun's wearing. They call it Tang but it doesn't resemble the other images I've seen of Tang clothing.

As for Kaiei- how true it is that what's normal behaviour in our culture looks pathological in someone else's, and vice versa. Even I, product of mid-20th century Catholicism, don't think subsuming one's feelings in duty is sociopathic or unhealthy. I mean, that's what civilization is all about- repressing selfish urges for higher goals or the greater good, or just because it's somehow 'right' to do so.

Confucianism screws with my head a little, for the extent to which it's prepared to go: but a belief that it's right that your father have absolute power over his family is fundamentally no more irrational than a belief that it's right for the government to have absolute power over chunks of your hard-earned money, which they take and use as they please whether you agree with their policies or not.