The parasol is the umbrella's daughter,

And associates with a fan





While her father abuts the tempest

And abridges the rain.













The former assists a siren

In her serene display;













But her father is borne and honored,

And borrowed to this day.

EMILY DICKINSON

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