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    Japanese Prints
    Japanese Prints
    Japanese Prints
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    Japanese Prints

    By John Gould Fletcher

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    'Japanese Prints' is a collection of poems written by the Imagist poet and Pulitzer Prize winner John Gould Fletcher. From his study of Japanese poetry and art, he produces his 'prints', short poems that capture the most trivial and commonplace subjects and make them into the universal significance of works of art. His writing is heavily influenced by the 16th century Japanese poet Bashō and his Zen Buddhist philosophies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateJul 20, 2022
    ISBN8596547102878
    Japanese Prints

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      Japanese Prints - John Gould Fletcher

      John Gould Fletcher

      Japanese Prints

      EAN 8596547102878

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Part I

      Lovers Embracing

      A Picnic Under the Cherry Trees

      Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree

      Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree

      A Beautiful Woman

      A Reading

      An Actor as a Dancing Girl

      Josan No Miya

      An Oiran and her Kamuso

      Two Ways of Love

      Kurenai-ye or Red Picture

      A Woman Standing by a Gate with an Umbrella

      Scene from a Drama

      A Woman in Winter Costume

      A Pedlar

      Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted

      An Actor

      Part II

      Memory and Forgetting

      Pillar-Print, Masonobu

      The Young Daimyo

      Masonubu—Early

      The Beautiful Geisha

      A Young Girl

      The Heavenly Poetesses

      The Old Love and the New

      Fugitive Thoughts

      Disappointment

      The Traitor

      The Fop

      Changing Love

      In Exile

      The True Conqueror

      Spring Love

      The Endless Lament

      Toyonobu. Exile's Return

      Wind and Chrysanthemum

      The Endless Pilgrimage

      Part III

      The Clouds

      Two Ladies Contrasted

      A Night Festival

      Distant Coasts

      On the Banks of the Sumida

      Yoshiwara Festival

      Sharaku Dreams

      A Life

      Dead Thoughts

      A Comparison

      Mutability

      Despair

      The Lonely Grave

      Part IV

      Evening Sky

      City Lights

      Fugitive Beauty

      Silver Jars

      Evening Rain

      Toy-Boxes

      Moods

      Grass

      A Landscape

      Terror

      Mid-Summer Dusk

      Evening Bell from a Distant Temple

      A Thought

      The Stars

      Japan

      Leaves

      Preface

      Table of Contents

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