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9 roses as white as roses are red. Japan’s most famous lesbian writer, Yoshiko Nobuya,
is the author of a story, “Red Rose, White Rose”. One of a series of stories in her
collection Hana Monogatari (Flower Stories). “Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973) is the
most famous and successful closeted lesbian writer in Japan.” For further
information on Yoshiya Nobuko, her partner Monma Chiyo and other Japanese
lesbians see Marou Izumo and Clare Maree. 2000. Love upon the Chopping Board,
pp. 78-89.
10 blue moon. A name of a rose listed in the Index of Vita Sackville-West’s The
Illustrated Garden Book, p. 190.
11 dew slides across the surface. See Lariane Fonseca. 1992. If Passion Were a Flower... ,
p. 15.
12 wild roses. Susan Howe in her Introduction to The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the
Wilderness in American Literary History (1993. p. 21) writes of the antinomy of
American poets Anne Hutchinson and Emily Dickinson, lamenting the lack of
scholarly attention paid to these two women. The final phrase of her introduction
is, “wild roses are veils before trespass”. Thanks to Sue Fitchett for drawing my
attention to the work of Susan Howe.