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Emile Verhaeren

In 1896 the Belgian Poet Emile Verhaeren was asked by the Tokyo publisher Hasegawa to write poetic glosses for the French version of an album of woodblocks by Kwasson (Kason Suzuki) for the Paris Exposition of 1900. The gentle travelogue verse, a classic of Orientalist dreaming, is translated here for the first time in a mimotyped edition.