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Chang'e (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː ŋ. ə / CHAHNG-ə; Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: Cháng'é), originally known as Heng'e (姮娥; Héng'é), is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Hou Yi, the great archer. Renowned for her beauty, Chang'e is also known for her ascending to the Moon with her pet Yu Tu, the Moon Rabbit and living in the Moon Palace (廣寒宮).
L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon) (1886) is a collection of poems by the French poet Jules Laforgue. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn and "to the memory of little Salammbô, priestess of Tanit". It contains the following twenty-two poems: "Un mot au Soleil pour commencer" "Litanies des premiers quartiers de ...
"The Lady of Shalott" (/ ʃ ə ˈ l ɒ t /) is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.
Akazome Emon's year of birth is unknown, [1] but she was likely born between Tentoku 1 (957) and Kōhō 1 (964). [1] She was officially the daughter of Akazome Tokimochi (赤染時用), [1] [2] but the late-Heian karonsho (book of poetic criticism) Fukuro-zōshi [] records that her biological father was her mother's first husband, Taira no Kanemori.
The poem was originally included in the Kokinshū as #133, in the section dedicated to seasonal (spring [citation needed]) poetry. [15] The poem is filled with many layers of significance, with almost every word carrying more than one meaning. [16] It was the subject of a short essay appended to Peter McMillan's translation of the Ogura ...
She is a member of the Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals (中古三十六歌仙, chūko sanjurokkasen). She was the contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, and Akazome Emon at the court of empress Joto Mon'in. She "is considered by many to have been the greatest woman poet of the Heian period". Her legacy includes 242 poems and two kashu. [1]
17th-century depiction of Murasaki by Tosa Mitsuoki. Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, ' Lady Murasaki '; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.
Su'e pian (Chinese: 素娥篇; pinyin: Sù'é piān), [1] also Su E Pian, translated into English as The Moon Goddess [2] or The Lady of the Moon, [3] is a Chinese erotic novel by an anonymous writer published in the late Ming dynasty. It follows the sexual escapades of Wu Sansi (武三思) and his concubine, Su'e (素娥).