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Title: Japanese Prints

Author: John Gould Fletcher

Illustrator: Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

Release Date: November 8, 2008 [EBook #27199]

Language: English

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_Japanese Prints_

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| By John Gould Fletcher |
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| Japanese Prints |
| Goblins and Pagodas |
| Irradiations: Sand and Spray |
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[Illustration]

"Of what is she dreaming?
Of long nights lit with orange lanterns,
Of wine-cups and compliments and kisses of the two-sword men."

_Japanese Prints_

_By_

_John Gould Fletcher_

_With Illustrations By
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop_

[Illustration]

_Boston_
_The Four Seas Company_
_1918_

_Copyright, 1918, by
The Four Seas Company_

_The Four Seas Press
Boston, Mass., U.S.A._

_To My Wife_

_Granted this dew-drop world be but a dew-drop world,
This granted, yet--_

_Table of Contents_

PREFACE 11

PART I.

Lovers Embracing 21
A Picnic Under the Cherry Trees 22
Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree 23
Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree 24
A Beautiful Woman