Ishiyama moon

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Ishiyama moon

(Ishiyama no tsuki)

 

October 1889
Murasaki Shikibu, born around the year 978, sits at her writing desk on the balcony of the temple at Ishiyama where, after retiring from the court, she wrote her celebrated novel, The Tale of Genji.

 

 

   

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