But whoever reads that sonnet will never forget it; it burns into the memory.

So, indeed, does everything that Heredia writes.

Unfortunately he has not yet written anything more about Japan.
I have quoted Heredia because I think that no other poet has even approached him in the attempt to make a Japanese picture--though many others have tried; and the French, nearly always, have done much better than the English, because they are more naturally artists.

Indeed one must be something of an artist to write anything in the way of good poetry on a Japanese subject.

If you look at the collection "Poems of Places," in the library, you will see how poorly Japan is there represented; the only respectable piece of foreign work being by Longfellow, and that is only about Japanese vases.