. Chats on Japanese prints. rest—Rise dewy from prenatal sleepTo strew with little waves the deep-Surely it is your breath that stirsThese fluttering gauzy robes of hers ! Come whence ye may, I marvel notThat ye are lured to seek this spot;Your tenuous scarcely breathed powersSway not the sturdier garden had unmanifest gone bySave that she feels them visibly. O little winds, her little handsIn time with tunes from fairy-landsAre moving; and her bended headKnows nothing of the long years spedSince heaven more near to earth was gods lived, and the world was young. Her inner
. Chats on Japanese prints. rest—Rise dewy from prenatal sleepTo strew with little waves the deep-Surely it is your breath that stirsThese fluttering gauzy robes of hers ! Come whence ye may, I marvel notThat ye are lured to seek this spot;Your tenuous scarcely breathed powersSway not the sturdier garden had unmanifest gone bySave that she feels them visibly. O little winds, her little handsIn time with tunes from fairy-landsAre moving; and her bended headKnows nothing of the long years spedSince heaven more near to earth was gods lived, and the world was young. Her inner robe of tenderest fawnIn cool, faint fountains of the dawnWas dyed; and her long outer dressBorrows its luminous lovelinessFrom some clear bowl with water filledIn which one drop of wine was spilled. Peace folds her in its deeps profound;Her shy glance lifts not from the ground;And through this gardens still retreatShe moves with tripping silver feetWhose tranced grace, whereer she stra^rs,Turns all the days to holy HARUNOBU : YOUNG GIRL IN WIND. Polychrome, from eight blocks. Size ii x 8. Signed Smuki Harunobii ga,Gookin Collection. Plate II. 137 SECOND PERIOD: POLYCHROME 139 Come ! let us softly steal what can we, whose hearts are to her dreaming paradise ?A chill shall mock her from our eyes;A cloud shall dim this radiant air;Come ! for our world is otherwhere. But O ye little winds that blowFrom golden islands long agoLost to our searching in the deepOf dreams between the shores of sleep —Ye shall her happy playmates be,Fluttering her robes invisibly. The few available fragments of information aboutthe life of Susuki Harunobu can be briefly between 1725 and 1730, he lived in Yedoall his life in a house near the river. In 1764 heperfected a new and epoch-making treatment ofcolour-print technique, and died in 1770, not muchmore than forty years of may, where so little is known,willingly follow Dr. Kurth in hisingenious tracing
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