Lady Izumi Shikibu You told me it was You told me it was because of me you gazed at the moon. I've come to see if this is true. --from Three Poems on Love Japanese; trans. Willis Barnstone Lady Izumi Shikibu, from "Three Poems on Love," Japanese, trans. Willis Barnstone, A Book of Women Poets, from Antiquity to Now, Willis Barnstone and Aliki Barnstone, eds., 1980, Schocken Books. Home
You told me it was
You told me it was because of me you gazed at the moon. I've come to see if this is true. --from Three Poems on Love Japanese; trans. Willis Barnstone
Lady Izumi Shikibu, from "Three Poems on Love," Japanese, trans. Willis Barnstone, A Book of Women Poets, from Antiquity to Now, Willis Barnstone and Aliki Barnstone, eds., 1980, Schocken Books.
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