Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Domenico Gnoli























































































 http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/g/gnoli/g.htm

https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/g/gnoli/n.htm


Sunday, August 16, 2020

Basho's Grave

 













At the Grave of Bashō

      by James Kirkup

No incense burns, old poet,
before your plain stone obelisk,
and there are no country flowers
in the bamboo jars.

A small green tree
with dark pointed foliage
and whose name I do not know
leans it shadow over you.

On the other side,
a bush with heart-shaped leaves
now in July has one leaf stained
with November red.

I plucked the leaf,
because it may have been a sign from you.
It was the only signal I could give—
a passing greeting from one wanderer to another


Written at Bashō’s grave in the grounds of Gichuji Temple east of Kyoto. From 
A Certain State of Mind: An Anthology of Classic, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Haiku in Translation with Essays and Reviews. Salzburg, Austria: University of Salzburg, 1995, page 133.

















Tuesday, August 4, 2020

zhao meng jian ... narcissii ... painted before 1267 ...

the met have this ... they photographed it in detail but present it in seven section that can't be read coherently by western eyes ... here, at least, i give you those seven sections as if from-left-to-right