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Izumi Shikibu

“When the netted fence of spiderwebs
that darkens my ruined house
can hold the wind in its strands-
that's when these troubled thoughts
will blow away. . . .”

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