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| | Ono no Komachi |
 | | The assumption is that her life, which, in later legend, came to be presented as a long one, was totally contained within the 9th century. |
 | | The preface to the Kokinshu is also famous for the first statement of Japanese attitudes toward the function of poetry: to express feelings, often in response to nature, "about the bush warbler singing among the blossoms or the frog in the water. |
 | | The form of almost all the Kokinshu poems, and all of Ono no Komachi's, is the tanka, almost the only pattern used in Japanese poetry until, 800 years later, the haiku became established--by dropping the last two lines of the tanka. |
| www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Komachi.html (1774 words) |
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