Are you sure both that you have actually selected Kimono Blossom (it's an easy mistake to make!) and that no codices were removed? There are four codices at the start, all in the bottom half of the board, two of which are open and two closed. It is very easy to fail to notice if the two open codices are removed because you…

I figured out what's going on. As you say, two codices are open and two are closed at the start of the level. Without fail, Kimono Blossom works her magic only on the closed codices, which has no effect whatsoever, which I didn't realize, because I can't think of any reason why it would work that way. Nice goings on,…