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exhausted when it is filled. And I will rest in reverie.

The season, too, will rest in rain before getting another pang of force. Nature, who began as strong and objective as a Chinese art, and then turned as voluptuous and quite real as the Shijo art, more as our beloved Ukiyoye art, is now becoming the art of Korin design in the season of iris and wistaria, great Korin’s favourite subjects. The Japanese nature of May is most decorative.

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