The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

Author/Contributor(s):	Komachi, Ono no; Shikibu, Izumi; Hirshfield, Jane; Aratani, Mariko
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	10/3/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

These translated poems were written by two women 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.