The Fifth Farewell: Reading the poetry of Izumi Shikibu
He was in a Zen garden one morning gazing into a rock when he felt the weight of her words rush into his heart like a landslide. A thousand years apart, their glances met. [11:07 am, 25th May 2023, Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto.] *Izumi Shikibu (976 ~ 1030 AD) was a Heian-era poet at the Imperial Court in Kyoto.
