#yone noguchi

[1five1two]

[love1kimono]

THE GEISHA GIRL OF JAPAN -- By Yone Noguchi

The Geisha on the right, identified as Miss O YEN, is identified in manuscript as HANKICHI --- the same name as the girl on the left --- on the back of an original "cabinet view" print of the K. OGAWA photo used for the above newspaper collage. If that is correct, the newspaper photo-editor probably switched the names of HANKICHI and O YEN. Only time will tell who is who.

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

You must fully understand the beauty of life, if you want to see the beauty of death; and life will be more beautiful from the reason of contrast with death. And death, again from the contrast with life, will be more tender in pathos, more subtle in rhythm.

Excerpt from Epilogue, by Yoné Noguchi. As featured in Japanese Hokkus, 1920 edition.

[creatediana]

"At Night" by Yone Noguchi (1875–1947), the first Japanese-born writer to publish work in English

[ammonitetestpatterns]

yone noguchi, seen and unseen: or, monologues of a homeless snail, 1897.

[mvaljean525]

Thou burstest from mood: How sad we have to cling to experience! Marvel of thy every atom burning of life, How fully thou livest! Didst thou ever think to turn to cold and shadow? Passionate liver of sunlight, Symbol of youth and pride; Thou art a lyric of thy soaring colour; Thy voicelessness of song is action. What absorption of thy life's meaning. Wonder of thy consciousness,— Mighty sense of thy existence!

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To The Sunflower

Yone Noguchi 1875-1947

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Graphic - Yirba

[eveningreading]

The silence is broken: into the nature    My soul sails out,  Carrying the song of life on his brow,    To meet the flowers and birds. When my heart returns in the solitude,     She is very sad, Looking back on the dead passions   Lying on Love’s ruin.  I am like a leaf    Hanging over hope and despair,  Which trembles and joins    The world’s imagination and ghost. 

"I Am Like a Leaf" Yone Noguchi (1875-1947)

[tamsoj]

Yone Noguchi, "The Poet," from The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (The Wisdom of the East Series)