Importance of the nun.

The nun from the Temple of Clouds symbolizes the young women who the Japanese raped and disgraced. Ling first sees the nun at the Temple of the Clouds when she and Aritomo went there to pray for Tominaga. When the nun visited Ling at Yugiri, she reveals that she was raped by the Japanese soldiers during their occupation of Malaya. Her family considered her a disgrace and that stigma followed her wherever she went, prompting her to go to the Temple of the Clouds. The significance is that Yun Hong feared she would face that same fate if she survived the prison camp.