Castro Marim, Algarve, Portugal by tg250607 on Flickr.

An unlined summer “Ro” silk kimono featuring yuzen-dyed and painted bamboo shoots.  Taisho to early Showa period (1911-1939).  The Kimono Gallery

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White aster : a Japanese epic; together with other poems from the German adaptation of Prof. Dr. Karl Florenz ([1906])

Tenderness

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I’m not certain of whether it’s true.