Toyokuni First Evening … 353 — -Two Geisha Against a grey night background these extraordinary figure rise up, in pale grey and rose and violet robes. Their strange distortions carry to the ultimate extreme that morbid and fantastic beauty which was a passion to the public and the artists of the end of the eighteenth…
Arthur Davison Ficke
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