"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."
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The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin 1987, Steven D. Carter
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Fujiwara no Teika
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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