Fuji Arts has their advertising all over the place. Clicked on the links this morning and cruised the Hasui/ Shin-hanga section for an hour or so. Woodblock prints are still as enticing as twenty-five and thirty years ago when I first started collecting. So what if the Hasuis are all later stuff from the original blocks? Some of my favourite prints in this house are exactly that. (I note the originals, where they exist, are double or triple the price.) Won't do it, of course: any spare cash goes on The House now. But I was amused to find myself momentarily back in 1989, my Hasui/ Koitsu buying year, with the world all before me and a strong urge to run off to Japan again, as if that would solve all my problems. Balanced by the desire to buy shin-hanga, so that if I can't go there, I can still have a piece of Japan to keep here.
"Chop ice, drink water"
Fuji Arts has their advertising all over the place. Clicked on the links this morning and cruised the Hasui/ Shin-hanga section for an hour or so. Woodblock prints are still as enticing as twenty-five and thirty years ago when I first started collecting. So what if the Hasuis are all later stuff from the original blocks? Some of my favourite prints in this house are exactly that. (I note the originals, where they exist, are double or triple the price.) Won't do it, of course: any spare cash goes on The House now. But I was amused to find myself momentarily back in 1989, my Hasui/ Koitsu buying year, with the world all before me and a strong urge to run off to Japan again, as if that would solve all my problems. Balanced by the desire to buy shin-hanga, so that if I can't go there, I can still have a piece of Japan to keep here.
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Second Pilates session. Given that it's not that heavy a workout, it's amazing how zonked I am. But loose, yes indeed. Thermostat is bumped up over…
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Made it to the Dufferin Mall and located my watchmaker's stand, today operated by a slender south Asian woman, presumably daughter of the regular…
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Croopus but today set a new low for aches and pains. I see why my maternal grandmother took to her bed for more or less the last twenty-five years of…
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