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nineveh_ukI went into town yesterday for the first time since March, in the hope that I might be able to pick up one or two things from the shops IRL before all of the students are back, particularly some piano music which seems to be tricky to buy online without it being too difficult, too easy, or just not quite what you were after.
But I also took the opportunity to go to Sanders of Oxford to look at their range of Japanese prints, because having been reading a bit about prints over the summer, I wanted to see something IRL. Not that I've never seen them IRL before, including in the shop, but because this time I know just a tiny bit about them, which is more than I had previously. Alas, the tastes I have developed are both conventional and expensive! Why do I have to love shin-hanga landscapes instead of random minor C19 kabuki prints? But there was no hope: apparently Japanese artists have discovered the secret of representing snowy landscapes magnificently, and I am a sucker for a good snowy landscape.
TL:DR I want to buy all the Hasui Kawase*. Particularly the ones with red shrines in the snow. The damn things look nice enough on-line, but in person they look so much better. Alas, they come with a prince to match their looks, but help is at hand! Because they are prints, there are respectable modern reprints editions. So one day, when I know a bit more and can pick exactly what I want, I am going to get one. I am not going to be a collector, so I don't care if it is 1941 vs 2019 if the latter is good quality.
In the meantime I bought myself the £10 Cecily Mary Barker poppy fairy, because I have loved it since I was 7 (she had the hair I wanted, i.e. long), so why shouldn't I have a copy?
In the meantime, the freezer is defrosting, I have gone through the post, and I am going to watch the rest of the men's road race in the World Cycling championships and draw something myself.
*And the snowy Yoshida Toshi.
But I also took the opportunity to go to Sanders of Oxford to look at their range of Japanese prints, because having been reading a bit about prints over the summer, I wanted to see something IRL. Not that I've never seen them IRL before, including in the shop, but because this time I know just a tiny bit about them, which is more than I had previously. Alas, the tastes I have developed are both conventional and expensive! Why do I have to love shin-hanga landscapes instead of random minor C19 kabuki prints? But there was no hope: apparently Japanese artists have discovered the secret of representing snowy landscapes magnificently, and I am a sucker for a good snowy landscape.
TL:DR I want to buy all the Hasui Kawase*. Particularly the ones with red shrines in the snow. The damn things look nice enough on-line, but in person they look so much better. Alas, they come with a prince to match their looks, but help is at hand! Because they are prints, there are respectable modern reprints editions. So one day, when I know a bit more and can pick exactly what I want, I am going to get one. I am not going to be a collector, so I don't care if it is 1941 vs 2019 if the latter is good quality.
In the meantime I bought myself the £10 Cecily Mary Barker poppy fairy, because I have loved it since I was 7 (she had the hair I wanted, i.e. long), so why shouldn't I have a copy?
In the meantime, the freezer is defrosting, I have gone through the post, and I am going to watch the rest of the men's road race in the World Cycling championships and draw something myself.
*And the snowy Yoshida Toshi.
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Date: 2020-09-29 10:00 am (UTC)