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Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Izumi Shikibu

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Izumi Shikibu
Died: 1033
Died: January 1
Lady-In-Waiting
Poet
Writer
Lady Izumi
Seishin Insei Hōni
Come
Dew
World
Flowers
Quickly
Exists
Soon
Flower
Open
Sheen
Fall
Blossoms

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