Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Its edges foamed with amethyst and rose,
Withers once more the old blue flower of day:
There where the ether like a diamond glows
Its petals fade away.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 174

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
"The Garland", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.

Book I, line 300
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