Courtly Splendor: Twelve Centuries of Treasures from Japan
Tuesday, March 21st, 1989![](https://www.rebeccanemser.com/wp-content/uploads/1989/03/Ono-no-Michikaze-Tokyo-National-Museum-150x150.jpg)
The silvery glow of the moon and the flow of an underground river are reflected in sinuous calligraphy that swoons down a page from 12th century book of poems, strewn with shimmering silver roses: “True, I say nothing/ but the longing in my heart/ reaches out to you,/ secret as the constant flow of an underground river.”
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