The Ink Dark Moon

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

Author  Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu Translated by  Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
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The Ink Dark Moon
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These translated poems were written by two women 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.