“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”
Quelle: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
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“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
Izumi Shikibu Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Quelle: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Translated by Arthur Waley
"Said to be [Izumi Shikibu's] death-verse; the moon may refer to Buddha's teachings." Anthology Of Japanese Literature (1955) by Donald Keene, p. 92
