Japanese Prints
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The poems in "Japanese Prints" by John Gould Fletcher reflect an interest in the aesthetic principles and spirituality of Japanese art, particularly Ukiyo-e prints. The collection, composed in the early 20th century, employs imagery from nature, human relationships, and fleeting moments to evoke emotion and contemplative insight. Fletcher's verses aim to capture the simplicity and depth characteristic of Japanese poetic traditions, translating visual beauty into poetic form. Many poems depict scenes of love, beauty, and leisure, often referencing traditional Japanese motifs such as cherry blossoms, court dames, and historical figures. Written during a period when Western poets were increasingly influenced by Asian art and philosophy, Fletcher’s work exemplifies this cross-cultural engagement in poetic expression. The collection is accompanied by illustrations that complement its themes, providing visual accents to its contemplative tone.
"Japanese Prints" is a work of early 20th-century American poetry that synthesises Japanese artistic influences with Fletcher’s own lyrical style, reflecting the era’s fascination with Asian aesthetics.
"Japanese Prints" is a work of early 20th-century American poetry that synthesises Japanese artistic influences with Fletcher’s own lyrical style, reflecting the era’s fascination with Asian aesthetics.
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Of wine-cups and compliments and kisses of the two-sword men." Japanese Prints By John Gould Fletcher With Illustrations By Dorothy Pulis Lathrop Boston The Four Seas Company 1918 Copyright, 1918, by The Four Seas Company The Four Seas Press Boston, Mass., U.S.A. To My Wife Granted this dew-drop world be but a dew-drop world, This granted, yet— Table of Contents Preface 11 Lovers Embracing 21 A Picnic Under the Cherry Trees 22 Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree 23 Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree 24 A Beautiful Woman 25 A Reading 26 An Actor as a Dancing Girl 27 Josan No Miya 28 An Oiran and Her Kamuso 29 Two Ways Of Love 30 Kurenai-ye or "Red Picture" 31 A Woman Standing by a Gate with an Umbrella 32 A Woman in Winter Costume 34 A Pedlar 35 Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu Contrasted 36 An Actor 37 Memory and Forgetting 41 Pillar-Print, Masonobu 42 The Young Daimyo 43 Masonubu—Early 44 The Beautiful Geisha 45 A Young Girl 46 The Heavenly Poetesses 47 The Old Love and The New 48 Fugitive Thoughts 49 Disappointment 50 The Traitor 51 The Fop 52 Changing Love 53 In Exile 54 The True Conqueror 55 Spring Love 56 The Endless Lament 57 Toyonobu. Exile's Return 58 Wind and Chrysanthemum 59 The Endless Pilgrimage 60 The Clouds 63 Two Ladies Contrasted 64 A Night Festival 65 Distant Coasts 66 On the Banks of the Sumida 67 Yoshiwara Festival 68 Sharaku Dreams 69 A Life 70 Dead Thoughts 71 A Comparison 72 Mutability 73 Despair 74 The Lonely Grave 75 Evening Sky 79 City Lights 80 Fugitive Beauty 81 Silver Jars 82 Evening Rain 83 Toy-Boxes 84 Moods 85 Grass 86 A Landscape 87 Terror 88 Mid-Summer Dusk 89 Evening Bell from a Distant Temple 90 A Thought 91 The Stars 92 Japan 93 Leaves 94 List of Illustrations "Of what is she dreaming? Of long nights lit with orange lanterns, Of wine-cups and compliments and kisses of the two-sword men." Frontispiece Headpiece—Part I 19 Tailpiece—Part I 37 Headpiece—Part II 39 "Out of the rings and the bubbles, The curls and the swirls of the water, Out of the crystalline shower of drops shattered in play, Her body and her thoughts arose." 46 "The cranes have come back to the temple, The winds are flapping the flags about, Through a flute of reeds I will blow…
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