title: String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi (Shaps Library of Translations)
author: Shikishi
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Japanese
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  I will gather up
  The transparent beads scattered
  By the waterfall
  And borrow them when sadness
  Has consumed my store of tears.
  —from Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, translated by Helen Craig McCullough
  
   
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  Kumaya