September 2010
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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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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...
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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...
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“The weeds grow so thick
You cannot even see the path
That leads to my...”
– Soujou Henjou (815-890, Kokinshu)
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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
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“One of the great pleasures in reading the literature of the past, whether ‘The...”
– (via jotei)
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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...
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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
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“why hadn’t I
thought of it before?
this body,
remembering yours,
is the...”
– izumi shikibu [untitled] (via leggomarierose)
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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)
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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)
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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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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...
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“When I think of you, fireflies in the marsh rise like the souls jewels, lost to...”
– (via luxetoile)
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“Which should I think shouldn’t exist in this world,
those who neglect or those...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via ebonymoon)
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August 2010
73 posts
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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)