Word and Image (new)

[karadinart]

If in an autumn field
a hundred flowers
can untie their streamers
may I not openly frolic
as fearless of blame?

Ono no Komachi

Comments

[alina-kotik.livejournal.com]

Ono-no-Komachi is brilliant, and this poem perfectly captures the image.
(P.S. Do you believe she caused the death of Arivara no Narihira?)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

no.