Trouble with a small excerpt from Tanizaki's Himitsu I'm having some trouble understanding the following excerpt (from Tanizaki's _Himitsu_ ): > "The sweet scented and chilly dew" does what? "the delight of the skin that penetrated the pores was exceptional"? Help me!

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is a relative clause modifying .
The subject of is .

The sentence roughly means something like.....

> "The delight of the skin [into the pores of which the sweet scented and chilly dew penetrated] was exceptional" / "The delight of the skin [when the sweet scented and chilly dew penetrated its pores] was exceptional."