Author: Helen Craig (translator) McCullough
Cited by
- Lian Hearn (4)
- IN: The Tengu's Game of Go (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Let us all go forth
Bridle to bridle and see
No doubt the blossoms
Are scattering like snowflakes
In the ancient capital
FROM: Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, (1985), Poem, Japan
- IN: Emperor of the Eight Islands (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Frail indeed must be
Cross threads of frost and dawn threads
Fashioned of dewdrops
For brocades in the mountains
Are woven only to scatter
FROM: Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, (1985), Poem, Japan
- IN: Lord of the Darkwood (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Might it be through grief
at sight of the bush clover,
colored by autumn,
that the stag's cries continue
until the foothills resound?
FROM: Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, (1985), Poem, Japan
- IN: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: I will gather up
The transparent beads scattered
By the waterfall
And borrow them when sadness
Has consumed my store of tears
FROM: Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry, (1985), Poem, Japan