# The Ink Dark Moon

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- Book: [The Ink Dark Moon](https://www.bookquiver.com/izumi-shikibu/the-ink-dark-moon) ([The Ink Dark Moon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/izumi-shikibu/the-ink-dark-moon.md))
- Authors: [Izumi Shikibu](https://www.bookquiver.com/izumi-shikibu), [Ono no Komači](https://www.bookquiver.com/ono-no-komaci)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-958-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1990-10-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

These translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A. D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and...