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On a moonlit night in Kyoto, the pale light brushed over the tiled rooftops.Down a narrow alley walked a lone monk, a gourd in his hand and a love letter hidden in his robe—his name was Ikkyū Sōjun. Known to many as the witty and mischie...

Dante Alighieri.A towering figure who symbolizes medieval European literature and stands among the greatest in the history of world letters. The long narrative poem that immortalized his name, The Divine Comedy, is a grand tale of a jour...

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 dancing together. In this era, one female poet left her name in history through the p...