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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
11th Century

About Izumi Shikibu

Timeline (974? - 1034?)

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English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Original Language
Japanese
Although the wind

Themes
  Moon
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house.

 

 

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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