A Useful Pot To Put Things In

billvanpatten:

Voyage d’un harpiste en orient, Elias Parish-Alvars.

bloodfortea:

Gloria Swanson, silent film siren

elysskama:

In a Garden Fair
James Craig Annan
Scotland, 1901

(via tweedandbowties)

artemisdreaming:

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a butterfly
in front and back
of the woman’s path

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Chiyo-ni

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, widely regarded as one of the greatest female haiku poets.

Born in Matto, Kaga Province (now Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture) as a daughter of a picture framer, Chiyo-ni began writing haiku poetry aged 7. By the age of 17, she had become very popular all over Japan for her poetry. Her poems, although mostly dealing with nature, work for a unity of nature with humanity. Her own life was that of the haikai poets who made their lives and the world they lived in one with themselves.

Chiyo-ni’s teachers were the students of Bashō, and she stayed true to his style, although she did develop on her own as an independent figure. Today, the morning glory is a favorite flower for the people of her home town, because she left a number of poems on that flower.

After becoming a nun, Chiyo took the Buddhist name, Soen.

She is perhaps best known for this haiku:

morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask for water

(Source: photo-nla.gov.au)

archives-dada:

George Grosz

effleurer:

Château des Thons, an 18th-century château, was built in Les Petits Thons in the Vosges area of France. During the 1920s the château was disassembled and brought to Long Island, New York where it was rebuilt.  

ruial:

Biblioteca joanina da Universidade de Coimbra, 1728

D. João V library at Coimbra University

via http://www.portugalnotavel.com/2012/01/noticias-dezembro-turismo-patrimonio-notavel-de-portugal-2011/