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Fujiwara no Teika Quotes

1160–1240 Japan

Fujiwara no Teika (1162 – September 26, 1241) was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.

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Random Fujiwara no Teika quote

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From the beginning
I knew meeting could only
End in parting, yet
I ignored the coming dawn
And I gave myself to you.

On this spring night
the floating bridge of my dreams
has broken away:
and lifting off a far peak—
a cloud-bank in empty sky.

There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words from the masters of former time — who of them will fail to write poetry?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fujiwara no Teika (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.