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Jul. 6th, 2011 10:33 amNot caring about
The black disorder of my hair
I lay prostrate;
I ache with the loss
Of he who was first to caress it.
A poem by Izumi Shikibu, from 11th century, quoted in a section on Heian-era Kyoto, from John Dougill's Kyoto: A cultural history.
The black disorder of my hair
I lay prostrate;
I ache with the loss
Of he who was first to caress it.
A poem by Izumi Shikibu, from 11th century, quoted in a section on Heian-era Kyoto, from John Dougill's Kyoto: A cultural history.
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