Word and image: when gifts become enemies

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

 

I found a translation of this Ono no Komachi poem in a book called, “The ink dark moon” which has translations by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani.   I've paraphrased the original content into an English syllabic haiku for karadin who kindly recommended the book to me.  I don't have any information for the picture which was adrift on the internet somewhere without any credit as to its source.