"Outside dust mingling in it, hidden in town yet playing in — that was my husband's life. We helped each other get up and lie down, spending countless years and months together. Even when he was away on pilgrimage for just three months, five months, I used to lament the uncertainties of our intimacy. But, now, without waiting for the standing-and-waiting moon of seedling month, he departed forever, leaving me to feel as if the grief were mine alone, in utter confusion as to what to do."
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Arii Shokyū, cited in: Monumenta Nipponica;: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present, 2000. p. 4; About here life with Fufu.
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Fufu
1714 – 1781
Fufu (1701 - May 7, 1762) was a Japanese samurai-turned-poet.
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