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"the mist covers up
the women first...
shell gathering" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Toshikata Mizuno)
"This is a Tale about a tail ―
a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel,
and his name was Nutkin."
― Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
"This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, ―
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty." Emily Dickinson
(images: Hasui Kawase / Yumeji Takehisa)
"drinking tea alone --
every day the butterfly
stops by" Issa
(images: left: Harunobu Suzuki/ Shunso Hishida)
"The eyes of others our prisons;
their thoughts our cages." Virginia Woolf
(image: Kiyokata Kaburagi)
"I write, erase, rewrite,
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms" Hokushi
(poppies, Korin Ogata)
"opening the window
a window full
of spring" Santoka
(images: left: Hoitsu Sakai/ Shoen Uemura)
"Before the white camellia
the scissors hesitate
a moment"
(image: Kiitsu Suzuki)
"We sit together,
the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains." Li Po