Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and received a BA and MA from Indiana University. She is the author of the poetry collections We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, Where I Was Born, and Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory, as well as four chapbooks. She is associate and translation editor of RHINO and translation editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She organizes an online community at Working On Gallery and is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation.

“Unwavering, forlorn, eternal.”

• Contents:Sei Sho¯nagon 4 Fujiwara no Teishi, Empress Teishi 8 Gidousanshi no Mother, Takako 12 Murasaki Shikibu 16 Ko¯kamonin no Betto¯ 20 Izumi Shikibu 24 Koshikibu no Naishi 28 Ukon 32 Daini no Sanmi 36 Mother of envoys for the Japanese missions to the Tang dynasty 40 Empress Sho¯shi 44 Dewanoben 48 Akazome Emon 52 Fujiwara Michitsuna no Mother 56 Ono no Komachi 60 Taikenmon'in no Horikawa 64 Ise 68 Ise no Taifu 72 Empress Jito¯ 76 Saemonnokamikitakata 80

Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and received a BA and MA from Indiana University. She is the author of the poetry collections We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, Where I Was Born, and Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory, as well as four chapbooks. She is associate and translation editor of RHINO and translation editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She organizes an online community at Working On Gallery and is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation.

“Unwavering, forlorn, eternal.”

• Contents:Sei Sho¯nagon 4 Fujiwara no Teishi, Empress Teishi 8 Gidousanshi no Mother, Takako 12 Murasaki Shikibu 16 Ko¯kamonin no Betto¯ 20 Izumi Shikibu 24 Koshikibu no Naishi 28 Ukon 32 Daini no Sanmi 36 Mother of envoys for the Japanese missions to the Tang dynasty 40 Empress Sho¯shi 44 Dewanoben 48 Akazome Emon 52 Fujiwara Michitsuna no Mother 56 Ono no Komachi 60 Taikenmon'in no Horikawa 64 Ise 68 Ise no Taifu 72 Empress Jito¯ 76 Saemonnokamikitakata 80