Japanese Prints

Scene from a Drama

The daimyo and the courtesan Compliment each other.

He invites her to walk out through the maples, She half refuses, hiding fear in her heart.

Far in the shadow The daimyo's attendant waits, Nervously fingering his sword.

A Woman in Winter Costume

She is like the great rains That fall over the earth in winter-time.

Wave on wave her heavy robes collapse In green torrents Lashed with slaty foam.

Downward the sun strikes amid them And enkindles a lone flower; A violet iris standing yet in seething pools of grey.

A Pedlar

Gaily he offers Packets of merchandise.

He is a harlequin of illusions, His nimble features Skip into smiles, like rainbows, Cheating the villagers.

But in his heart all the while is another knowledge, The sorrow of the bleakness of the long wet winter night.

Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu

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