Issue Details: First known date: 1929... 1929 The Tragedy of Kimi : A Japanese Girl Whom Art Murdered
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Deamer relates the tragic story of Kimi, subject of the English poet Alfred Noyes's work, 'The Two Painters (A Tale of Old Japan)' (1909). Supposedly a true story, Kimi fell in love with her uncle's student, Suware, but killed herself when she learned he had married another.

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  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains Asian characters.

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