The Ink Dark Moon

Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Ja pan

By Jane Hirshfield (Translator)
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679729587, 240pp.)

Publication Date: October 3, 1990

Categories: Anthologies (multiple authors), Asian

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These translated poems were written by 2 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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