I may have said before that the most sensible thing I did on returning from Japan was to reorganize my libraries, upstairs and down. I don't recall getting rid of books, but I'm doing that now. A good four feet of art books have been sold to BMV, people and things I'm not going to want to look at much, like Bosch and Brueghel and Hokusai and Kuniyoshi's samurai prints and Hiroshige's fishes (*and* his stations of the Tokaido. Hiroshige either drew a lot of dreck, or the landscape of 19th century Japan was nothing to write home about. And since his Famous Views of Edo have a pretty high proportion of stunning, I'll blame the landscape.)
I may have said before that the most sensible thing I did on returning from Japan was to reorganize my libraries, upstairs and down. I don't recall getting rid of books, but I'm doing that now. A good four feet of art books have been sold to BMV, people and things I'm not going to want to look at much, like Bosch and Brueghel and Hokusai and Kuniyoshi's samurai prints and Hiroshige's fishes (*and* his stations of the Tokaido. Hiroshige either drew a lot of dreck, or the landscape of 19th century Japan was nothing to write home about. And since his Famous Views of Edo have a pretty high proportion of stunning, I'll blame the landscape.)
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