Eisho, Hosoda
Japanese
18th century
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Amherst College

Her face was a mixture of an awful wildness and extraordinary beauty. Narrow forehead and tender cheeks, fresh teeth and sensual lips, sharp eyes and arrogant eyebrows — all these cannot be expected in one person, but strangely she had them all. There was not the slightest flaw; most wonderful was the hair falling over her shoulders; as the sunlight shone bright blue on black her hair was no different than the feathers of a bird.

— Ryunosuke Akutagawa