Japanese Ship Naming

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, ship and/or naming:

    “In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Small pity for him!—He sailed away
    From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay,—”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “Husband,
    who am I to reject the naming of foods
    in a time of famine?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)