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"Sunrise in the Hills of Satsuma" by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. Of note: Satsuma is the old name for Kagoshima, and the author was the wife of the Ernest Fenollosa who got Pound oh so wrong about Chinese writing. Also of interest is this bit of orientialism, with a season in every stanza and ambiguous sexuality -- while most of her novels bore a male psuedonym, this was published under her own name.

The Japanese Woodblock Print Database lets you keyword search ukiyo-e prints. This MetaFilter announcement includes some sample keywords. This is the sort of thing you can spend HOURS randomwalking through, so I'll leave you with my discovery favorite so far: an owl flying under cherry blossoms and a full moon (click to embiggen details).

The little-known local history of Jesus's life and death in a small town in northern Japan, where the local legend is that it was actually his younger brother, Isukiri, who died on Golgotha. (via)

---L.

Date: 19 January 2013 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puddleshark.livejournal.com
Ooh! Fabulous Japanese woodblock print database! *emerges dazed after many hours* Thank you!

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