“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”
Origine: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Izumi Shikibu è stata una scrittrice e poetessa giapponese del periodo Heian. Fu una dei Trentasei Antichi Saggi della Poesia e fu insieme a Murasaki Shikibu e Akazome Emon alla corte di Joto Mon'in. È ricordata come una delle più grandi poetesse del suo tempo. È autrice del romanzo Izumi Shikibu Nikki . Wikipedia
“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”
Origine: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
Origine: 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