tanka aka waka
Wrote in the most traditional format of Japanese literature
Classical (early Heian) period in Japanese literature (794 AD-1185 AD)
Nothing much is known about her life.
Renowned for her unusual beauty
Among 36 Poetry Immortals
Poems are pensive, melancholy, and erotic. Most of her poems are melancholy.
A life in vain
My looks, talents faded
like these cherry blossoms
paling in the endless rains
that I gaze upon, alone.
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