July 2010
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Eastern Mind: Behold the fowls of the air - an... →
Often presented as the far relative of modern manga, the Emakimono (word meaning scroll of pictures) reached its zenith with the depiction of popular legends such as Murasaki Shikibu’s Genji Monogatari (the Tale of Genji), translated into a series of illustrated scrolls combining both the written passages of Shikibu’s masterpiece and fine quality paintings – in a fashion experimented ...
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Love poem of Ono no Komachi
shippo:
夢ぢには あしもやすめず かよへども うつつにひとめ 見しごとはあらず
Though I go to you ceaselessly along dream paths, the sum of those trysts is less than a single glimpse granted in the waking world
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Overlooked by Night Lights
whiteshirtsomethingelse:
I can’t stop thinking about the first stanza (unit, structure, moment) of this poem by Barbara Guest. I’m completely struck by the nature of her daring, architectural sense of spatial reference—at times opaque, at others stern and complete in its clarity…love the idea of vast spaces like parking lots (or as I have been writing about in response to this: fields, pools,...
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midori-geiko asked: After a day of darkness, no electricity (a tropical storm just whipped past us here), I come to tumblr and find this. <3 Thank you so much for the feature~ :3
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