Ono no Komachi 小野小町

waka poet · Heian Japan · 9th century

A poet of the early Heian period. Almost nothing is known of her life; only a few dozen poems and the legend of her beauty remain.

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9th century

What fades without its colour ever showing is the flower in the hearts of the people of this world.

色見えで移ろふものは世の中の人の心の花にぞありける

Kokin wakashu, poems of love