num_pages: 212
description: These translated poems were written by two 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.
language: English
title: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
titlecomplete: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
genres: Classics, Anthologies, Fiction, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Romance, Literature, Poetry, Womens
ratings_count: 1517
publisher: Vintage