Lovers Under An Umbrella In The Snow by Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

3 Short Poems From 9th Century Japan

By Ono No Komachi
You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up. 		Although I come to you constantly
over the roads of dreams,
those nights of love
are not worth one waking touch of you. 		Doesn't he realize
that I am not
like the swaying kelp
in the surf,
where the seaweed gatherer
can come as often as he wants.

Ono no Komachi (c.825 - 900 A.D.) was a famous Japanese Waka poet, in the early Heian period. She was noted as a rare beauty; Komachi is a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan. She is also numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

Art: Lovers Under An Umbrella In The Snow by Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

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