The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Ono no Komachi
212 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679729585
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Language: English
Publish: October 3, 1990
AsiaClassicsFictionJapanJapanese LiteratureLiteratureLovePoetryRomanceWomens
These translated poems were written by two ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors’ sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.