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NATURE, ART AND POETRY
Michitsuna no Haha (fl. 954-974)
(brushed on her painting of plum blossoms):
The fisherman's fires
and the little fisher's boats too
are peaceful, I have come
to this beach thriving with clams
feeling my life is fulfilled.
from Natural Sounds in Early Japanese Women's Poetry
WRITING BRUSH
Junii (Kyogoku) Tameko (fl. ca. 1290)
While longing,
among my wandering brush's
diversions,
what echoed my heart
was written.
from Japanese Women's Poetry
from Heart to Heart with Illustrations by
Mary Cassatt
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