Izumi Shikibu: Untitled ["Although the Wind"]

                                                  Although the wind
                                                  blows terribly here,
                                                  the moonlight also leaks
                                                  between the roof planks
                                                  of this ruined house.

Untitled ["Although the Wind"] by Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, edited and translated from the Japanese by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. © Vintage Classics, 1990.

Photography credit: Untitled image by Lexie in NZ (originally color).