Two or more relative or noun-modifying clauses stacked so that one modifies a noun inside another, producing deeply layered pre-nominal modification. A common feature of formal Japanese writing that learners often find disorienting.
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When Kepler saw the smaller planets orbiting Jupiter, they reminded him of the bodyguards surrounding a king on a journey, so he named them satellites.
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Because she had grown romantic, she had not yet fallen into the kind of passive frame of mind that accepts the idea that, wherever a person is, they should find some little corner to live in and arrange their whole life around it.
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'The Dagger of Kamui' is a kind of samurai/ninja story set against the upheaval of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 and Japan's restoration under the Meiji Emperor.
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The Sistine Chapel is a grand chapel built inside the Vatican Palace in 1473.