“Although the wind ...”
Izumi Shikibu, “Although the wind ... ,” translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani, from The Ink Dark Moon. Copyright © 1990 by Jane Hirshfield. Reprinted with the permission of Vintage Classics and Jane Hirshfield.
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Poet Izumi Shikibu 974–1034
POET’S REGION Japan
Subjects Buddhism, Religion, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, The Spiritual
Occasions Funerals
Biography
Heian-era Japanese poet Izumi Shikibu lived at the end of the tenth and beginning of the 11th century. She married twice and was the lover of both Prince Tametaka and Prince Atsumichi, Tametaka’s brother. Her poems and correspondence, part of a tradition of court love poetry, frequently combine erotic and romantic longing with Buddhist contemplation. In Love Poems from the Japanese (2003), poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth . . .
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SUBJECT Buddhism, Religion, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, The Spiritual
POET’S REGION Japan
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