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Rendezvous by moonlight

The courtier Taira no Tadanori (1144-1184) was governor of Satsuma and a talented poet.  He approaches a woman's chambers on a moonlit autumn night and composes a verse about the shrilling of the insects on the open fields, “How noisy, the sound of insects calling in the meadow; as for me, I make no sound but think of love.”