Plum Blossom Poem by Izumi Shikibu

Plum Blossom

Rating: 5.0


I cannot say
which is which:
the glowing
plum blossom is
the spring night's moon.

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Fabrizio Frosini 24 June 2016

another waka by Izumi Shikibu: 憂世をもまた誰にかは慰めむ思ひ志らずもとはぬ君かな uki yo wo mo mata tare ni ka Fa nagusamemu omoFi sirazu mo toFanu kimi kana In this cold and cruel world Who is there to Comfort me? Save Heartless, unfeeling And absent, you. Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 [from GOSHŪISHŪ - GSIS XIII: 746]

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