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Ikkyū Sōjun’s View on Love — A Zen Monk of Moon, Sake, and Forbidden Love
The night in Kyoto is slowly caressed by the moonlight.Down a quiet alley, a lone Zen monk slips away.In his hand, a gourd bottle; in his bosom, a love lette... -
Dante’s View of Love — His Eternal, Unreachable Love for Beatrice
Dante Alighieri.A towering figure who symbolizes medieval European literature and stands among the greatest in the history of world letters. The long narrati... -
Murasaki Shikibu’s Philosophy of Love — Where Love Dwelt at the Tip of Her Brush
Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow danci...
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