Kaempfer (generative text)
I remixed a quote by Kaempfer about his impressions of the Japanese cherry trees. Click on the image to access the work. Click Refresh in the browser to generate a new poem.
Created during Critical making as scholarship with P5.JS and Tracery - Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria (online), June 8th 2022.
Kaempfer was created in P5.js
The original quote:
If there be not room enough for a garden, they have at least an old ingrafted plum, cherry, or apricock tree. The older, the more crooked and monstrous this tree is, the greater value they put upon it . . . . to make it bear larger flowers, and in greater quantity, they commonly cut it to a few, perhaps two or three branches. It cannot be denied but that the great number of beautiful, incarnate, and double flowers, which they bear in the proper season, is a surprisingly curious ornament to this back part of the house, but they have this disadvantage, that they bear no fruit. - Kaempfer, cited in Japanese Flowering Cherries by Wybe Kuirtert
