num_pages: 130
description: Japanese poems deal with love, loss, grief, the transience of the natural world, desire, the seasons, loneliness, and dreams
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 (English and Japanese Edition)
genres: Literature, Classics, Japan, Womens, Asia, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Anthologies, Romance
ratings_count: 1517
publisher: Scribner