“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”

—  Izumi Shikibu

Source: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

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Japanese poet 976–1033

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