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The Ink Dark Moon : Love Poems by Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu

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These translated poems were written by two women of the ancient Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.

The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.

Translated by Mariko Aratani and Jane Hirshfield