Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan
Wilson
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her illness increased day by day; and she had drooped and pined away until she was now but a shadow of her former self.
She made scarcely any response to the affectionate words and expressions of tenderness which her Royal lover caressingly bestowed upon her.
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- INTRODUCTIONSample
- THE CHAMBER OF KIRI[2]
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- THE BROOM-LIKE TREE
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- BEAUTIFUL CICADA
- EVENING GLORY
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- YOUNG VIOLET
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- SAFFRON FLOWER
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- MAPLE FÊTE
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- FLOWER-FEAST
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- HOLLYHOCK
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- DIVINE TREE
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- VILLA OF FALLING FLOWERS
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- EXILE AT SUMA
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- EXILE AT AKASHI
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- THE BEACON
- OVERGROWN MUGWORT
- BARRIER HOUSE
- COMPETITIVE SHOW OF PICTURES
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- INTRODUCTION
- THE FISHER-BOY URASHIMA
- ON SEEING A DEAD BODY
- THE MAIDEN OF UNÁHI[134]
- THE GRAVE OF THE MAIDEN OF UNÁHI
- THE MAIDEN OF KATSUSHIKA
- THE BEGGAR'S COMPLAINT[137]
- A SOLDIER'S REGRETS ON LEAVING HOME
- ON BEHOLDING THE MOUNTAIN
- LOVE IS PAIN
- HITOMARO TO HIS MISTRESS
- NO TIDINGS
- HOMEWARD
- THE MAIDEN AND THE DOG
- LOVE IS ALL
- HUSBAND AND WIFE
- HE COMES NOT
- HE AND SHE
- THE PEARLS
- A DAMSEL CROSSING A BRIDGE
- SECRET LOVE
- A MAIDEN'S LAMENT
- RAIN AND SNOW
- MOUNT MIKASH
- ON THE DEATH OF THE POET'S MISTRESS
- ELEGY ON THE POET'S WIFE
- ON THE DEATH OF THE NUN RIGUWAÑ
- ON THE POET'S SON FURUBI
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- VIEW FROM MOUNT KAGO
- THE MIKADO'S BOW[149]
- SPRING AND AUTUMN
- RECOLLECTIONS OF MY CHILDREN
- THE BROOK OF HATSÚSE
- LINES TO A FRIEND
- THE BRIDGE TO HEAVEN[150]
- ODE TO THE CUCKOO
- THE ASCENT OF MOUNT TSUKÚBA
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- SHORT STANZAS
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- NAKAMITSU
- Part I.
- Part II.
- ABSTRACTION
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