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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (37062)	5/8/1999 7:41:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You read aright. Japanese court ladies invented written Japanese (helped by certain scholars). After each date or assignation a poem to one's love was obligatory, and the ladies only read Japanese in hiragana so the men had to become Japanese poets to score and be polite. The use of Chinese words in poetry was always too snooty. Japanese court poetry is ineffably beautiful to me -- easily translated and understood. But one can learn enough Japanese in a few days to love the poems in the original. But they are almost as good in English -- Lady Dyabu -- Thinking my sadness came from living in that place I fled to this land and heard The wild geese cry out to me Places all the same. Or Issa ... more commonplace and common on the death of his daughter This world of dew is A world of dew, and yet ... and yet