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Through autumn rains and winter snowstorms the love struck Shii no Shosho vowed to travel from Kyoto to Fukakusa for 100 successive nights in order to merit an opportunity to meet the 9th century poet Ono no Komachi, renown for her beauty and passion. Unfortunately the timid but steadfast courtier reportedly died on the last night without attaining his goal. (According to some stories, a parent died, and so out of filial piety he did not make the 100th visit.)
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