The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan by Jane Hirshfield, Izumi Shikibu, Mariko Aratani, Ono no Komachi

The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

Jane Hirshfield, Izumi Shikibu, Mariko Aratani, Ono no Komachi

212 pages • first pub 1988 (view editions)

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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.

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