by Akazome Emon | Translated by Naoko Fujimoto* The crickets are quiet. Someone walks on gravel. A horse’s...
Akazome Emon
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門; late 950s or early 960s – 1041 or later) was a Japanese waka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period. She is a member both of the Thirty Six Elder Poetic Sages (中古三十六歌仙, Chūko Sanjūrokkasen) and the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets.
