famous last words

japanese prints are certainly very interesting, as japanese prints -- in other words as long as they stay in japan.







a people should not appropriate what belongs to another race; in so doing, they are apt to make stupid mistakes.













there would soon be a kind of universal art, without any individual characteristics.

-- renoir 1

kimono bleu

'the
yellow
kimono'
by
frieseke



while it seems
that
the majority
of kimono
and
kimono-
inspired

'the
blue
kimono'
by
pearson

clothing to
be found
in the west,
in paintings,
clothing,

1912
velvet
and
lame
evening
coat


or designs,
seems to be
blue
or yellow,

coat by
de beer,
drawing by
brissaud

in the
japanese
prints one
is most
often likely
to find
blue or
yellow

'the
blue
futon'
attributed
to
kunisada


in the robes
of the men,
not the
women.