The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
By (Author) Ono no Komachi
By (author) Izumi Shikibu
Translated by Jane Hirshfield
Translated by Mariko Aratani
Random House USA Inc
Vintage Books
1st December 1990
United States
General
Fiction
895.61140803
Paperback
240
Width 131mm, Height 201mm, Spine 16mm
204g
These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.