Author: Lesley Downer

Cites

• Fujiwara Teika (1)
  • IN: The Samurai's Daughter (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Haru no yo no Yume no ukihashi Todae shite Mine ni wakaruru Yokogumo no sora On a spring night The floating bridge of dreams Breaks off: Swirling round the mountaintop A cloud drifts into the open sky
    FROM: NULL, (1201), Poem, Japan
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Samurai's Daughter (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Gion Temple bells toll the impermanence of all things; the sala flowers beside the Buddha's deathbed bear testimony to the fact that all who flourish must decline. The proud do not endure, they vanish like a spring night's dream. The mighty fall at last like dust before the wind.
    FROM: The Tale of the Heike, (1371), NULL, Japan