Hashiguchi Goyô, Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair (1920)
The girl, twenty – her black hair flows through her comb, how arrogant, how beautiful her spring!
Yosano Akiko, tr. Hiroaki Sato (Japanese)
Lying alone, my black hair tangled, uncombed, I long for the one who touched it first.
Izumi Shikibu, tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani (Japanese)
Will he love me forever? There’s no way I can tell. Since sun-rise my thoughts have been as disheveled as my black hair.
Lady Horikawa, tr. I. W. Furukami (Japanese)











