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Izumi Shikibu, a poet still waiting for a lover who has stopped coming, leaves her waiting room one summer night and heads for a mountain stream in the hills north of the capital. Seeing her own soul in the fireflies that fill the dark, she composes a poem, and from deep in the darkness a voice answers. This is the story of a thousand-year-old love poem and a reply whose sender no one knows.

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A widow guarding her home alone falls for a young monk passing through. He sidesteps her feelings with a gentle lie: "I'll stop by on my way back." Then he takes another road home. After waiting and waiting, she becomes a great serpent, chases him down, and coils around a temple bell. In the end, prayer sets both of them free: the one who lied and the one who hated.

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Before the wedding, the shrine's sacred cauldron is struck for an omen, and it stays silent. Isora is deceived by her husband Shōtarō, and her devotion is trampled. For forty-two nights she waits outside the door where he hides.

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Last plum season, a man visited her every night, until one night she was suddenly moved somewhere he could never reach. A year later, on the same plum-scented night, he steps into her room once more.

https://manga-portal.com/en/read/2026-10-26-koi-1900/2026-10-26T07:25:52.000Z

A man leaves his wife, swearing he'll be home by autumn, and sets off for the capital to sell silk. One reason not to return piles on another until seven years have gone by. When he finally reaches his village, it's buried in grass, and only his house has a light in the window.

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Episode 6 of the series. On festival day, proud Lady Rokujō goes unnoticed by her lover Genji, then is publicly humiliated by his wife's retainers. That summer, one spirit refuses to leave Genji's wife, Lady Aoi, and every time Lady Rokujō sleeps, she has the same dream.

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Her husband left for the capital, and for three years The Wife Who Waited kept waiting. Finally she promises to marry The Faithful Suitor, the man who stood by her the whole time. That night, someone knocks at her door. It's The Returning Husband, home at last.

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Episode 4 of the series. On a rainy day, a timid young man named Toyoo lends his old umbrella to Manago, a beautiful woman soaked to the skin. She loves him with all her heart, but she is not human. Toyoo keeps running from her, until someone dies because of him. Then he decides to end things with the one he loved, by his own hand.

https://manga-portal.com/en/read/2026-10-26-koi-a254/2026-10-25T21:56:49.000Z

A year after losing the man she loved, Izumi Shikibu has shut herself away—until his younger brother, Prince Atsumichi, sends her a sprig of white orange blossoms. A reply in verse sparks a love that survives rumors and lonely nights, and leads to a carriage waiting for her on a snowy night. But in the shadows, someone else quietly leaves the house.

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Lady Rokujō has decided to end her love affair herself by leaving for distant Ise. Then, just before she goes, Genji comes to see her. Through a bamboo blind they trade poems and talk until dawn. After that night she doesn't answer his letters begging her to stay, and she leaves the capital without looking back.

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Episode 1 of the series. After years of longing, a man runs off into the night carrying the woman he loves on his back. Along the way she keeps asking, "What's that?" He never answers her last question. When a thunderstorm hits, he hides her in an old storehouse and stands guard at the door until morning. At dawn, she is gone. This is a thousand-year-old story of an elopement, and of one question that went unanswered.