Meow
Posted: July 27, 2012 Filed under: Galleries, Museums, Private Collections | Tags: art, Cat, cats, Inagaki Tomoo, Japanese art, Japanese contemporary art, Japanese wood block prints, poetry, Sosaku Hanga, ukiyo-e 2 Comments
Inagaki Tomoo (1902-1980), Yellow Faced Cat
She nibbles at your stoop,
studies the open door, its yellow shadows play.
Steps in, steps out.
Nibbles again.
Vanishes into indigo wild night.
The eyes have it
Posted: June 13, 2012 Filed under: Private Collections | Tags: art, art blog, Izumi Shikibu, Japanese art, Japanese wood block prints, life, moga, plum trees, snow 4 Comments
Kiyoshi Kobayakawa, Expression of Eyes, 1931
I used up this body
longing
for one who does not come
A deep valley, now,
what once was my heart
Izumi Shikibu (974-1034)
It seemed the plum trees
were already in bloom
but when I picked a branch
what fell – so much like flowers –
was snow.
Izumi Shikibu (974-1034)
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