These poems take us to the back corridors of Heian Period life and reveal the sexual intrigues that so often occurred under the cover of darkness... the seductive, free-spirited erotic environment unfolds through th ...
Japan Times
A thousand years later we can read poems that remain absolutely accurate and moving descriptions of our most common and central experiences: love and loss, their reflection in the loveliness and evanescence of the n ...
‘Love and poetry are synonymous’: Nikita Gill introduces The Ink Dark Moon
In this introduction from Nikita Gill, she writes about Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu’s sensual poetry collection The Ink Dark Moon, about love, lust and longing.
