title: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (Vintage Classics)
author: Ono no Komachi
description: Matters of the heart and spirit and the transient nature of time and existence are the dominant themes of this collection of love poems by two leading female literary figures of Japan's Heian era--Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. The book includes an illuminating introduction and an appendix on Japanese poetry and the process of translation. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Let us all go forth
  Bridle to bridle and see
  No doubt the blossoms
  Are scattering like snowflakes
  In the ancient capital
  —from Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, translated by Helen Craig McCullough
  
   
  THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO LIST OF CHARACTERS
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  Kumayama no 