Immortal Poetess – Ono no Komachi
June 5, 2008
This picture was drawn by Kikuchi Yosai（菊池容斎） who was a painter in Japan.
Ono no Komachi (小野 小町 or おののこまち) (c. 825 — c. 900) was a famous Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the Six best Waka poets of the early Heian period. She was noted as a rare beauty; Komachi is a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan. She is also numbered as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
On such a night as this
When no moon lights your way to me,
I wake, my passion blazing,
My breast a fire raging, exploding flame
While within me my heart chars
