September 2010
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Sep 27th
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Sep 25th
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“Soon I shall cease to be. When I am beyond this world, can I have the memory...”
–  Izumi Shikibu (via cadaverlovesong)
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Sep 22nd
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Sei Shonagon
mmmmmo: No 134 Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one is worried about him, and then a letter suddenly arrives, one feels as though one were seeing him face to face. Again, it is a great comfort to have expressed one’s feelings in a letter even though one knows it cannot yet have arrived. If...
Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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More cast members announced for Ikuta Toma’s “The...
japanentertainment: As reported, Ikuta Toma will star in upcoming movie “Genji Monogatari (The Tales of Genji)” as Hikaru Genji, set for release sometime in 2011. “Genji Monogatari” is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to Murasaki Shikibu from the early eleventh century. Unlike the many “Genji Monogatari” movies and dramas made in the past,  this new “Genji Monogatari” will be...
Sep 21st
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Sep 19th
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Sep 18th
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“The weeds grow so thick You cannot even see the path That leads to my...”
– Soujou Henjou (815-890, Kokinshu)
Sep 18th
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Sep 17th
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Sep 17th
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Japanese emo poem...from the 10th century
2headsrbetter: Found this in the my Japanese History book the other day and thought, wow, people really do go through the same problems now as 1000 years ago. “In reality, It may well have to be; But even in my dreams To see myself shrink from others’ eyes Is truly sad.” -Ono no Komachi
Sep 16th
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“One of the great pleasures in reading the literature of the past, whether ‘The...”
– (via jotei)
Sep 16th
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Onmyōdō - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
mechassninja: Onmyōji (陰陽師?, also In’yōji) was one of the classifications of civil servants belonging to the Bureau of Onmyō in ancient Japan’s ritsuryo system. People with this title were professional practitioners of onmyōdō. Onmyōji were specialists in magic and divination. Their court responsibilities ranged from tasks such as keeping track of the calendar, to mystical duties such as...
Sep 15th
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dtrmination: ❝the deer that weds the autumn bush clover they say sires a single fawn and this fawn of mine this lone boy sets off on a journey grass for his pillow.❞ manyoshu vol. 9
Sep 15th
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“why hadn’t I thought of it before? this body, remembering yours, is the...”
– izumi shikibu [untitled] (via leggomarierose)
Sep 14th
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“In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved...”
– Murasaki Shikibu (via grritsgabby)
Sep 14th
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“He would gladly have seen her again at her ease in the lamplight. On the whole,...”
– Murasaki Shikibu, Genji Monogatari (via de-el)
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 12th
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“But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in...”
– Page 330 ‘The Tale of Murasaki’ - Liza Dalby (via findingtotoro)
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Sep 10th
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mono no aware (物の哀れ)
kajalnoire: “Mono no aware (物の哀れ, lit. “the pathos of things”), also translated as “an empathy toward things,” or “a sensitivity of ephemera,” is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing. The term was coined in the eighteenth century by the Edo-period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga, and was...
Sep 10th
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Sep 9th
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Sep 8th
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Sep 8th
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“When I think of you, fireflies in the marsh rise like the souls jewels, lost to...”
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Sep 6th
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Sep 5th
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Sep 5th
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“Which should I think shouldn’t exist in this world, those who neglect or those...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via ebonymoon)
Sep 5th
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Sep 3rd
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Sep 2nd
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Sep 1st
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August 2010
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“Was it that I went to sleep Thinking of him, That he came in my dreams? Had I...”
– Ono Komachi  (via tireddeyess)
Aug 31st
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