Source: Yone Noguchi's [The Spirit of Japanese Poetry] (1914), p. 112
Ono no Komachi: 15 quotes1 like
Famous Ono no Komachi Quotes
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 174
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 14
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15
Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78
Ono no Komachi Quotes about heart
“Imperceptible
It withers in the world,
This flower-like human heart.”
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955), p. 46
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 34
Ono no Komachi Quotes
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, Women Poets of Japan (1982), p. 15
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 206
Source: Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976), p. 33
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 142
Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 79
Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78
