“Today is the day of the Hōjōe festival at the Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine in Kyoto. What memories does it bring to mind?” I replied with a poem:
Useless memories! Though of Iwashimizu lineage No water from its stream Flows through to me now. [4.20]
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From The Confessions of Lady Nijō, translated by Karen Brazell - About this site