Saturday morning rounds
Mar. 15th, 2008 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyLetter has been mailed.
Target has been assaulted and new steel shelving (on sale) has been acquiredfor what I suspect may be fruitless attempt to organize my kitchen. (Wow! The camp kitchen boxes have a home. The Cheerful Monkeys party box has a home. The picnic coolers fit on top and I still have a shelf left to play with!) I also picked up copies of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Big Trouble In Little China" for $5 apiece, plus a new sleep shirt.
Moe's has been duly visited and supported and I found unmetered parking a reasonable walking distance away. Finds included a lovely exhibition catalogue called "Autumn Grasses and Water" from the Suntory Museum of Art. The textiles in it are all Edo period, but there's a lot of earlier period lacquer ware in it - like these Kamakura period boxes (I WANT!)- and it's all in color.
I also scored a 1920 edition of Diaries of Court Ladies Of Old Japan and a rather intriguing little book called The Black Ship Scroll, by Oliver Statler, which excerpts scroll paintings depicting the arrival of the Perry expedition at Shimoda in 1854. I did NOT commit to buying the $100 book on Japanese textile designs, even if it was reduced from $250. I thought about it, but almost everything in it is Edo period. I opted to invoke Shopping Karma. If I go back in a month or so and it's still there - and my budget will permit - it's meant to be mine. If not, not.
Target has been assaulted and new steel shelving (on sale) has been acquired
Moe's has been duly visited and supported and I found unmetered parking a reasonable walking distance away. Finds included a lovely exhibition catalogue called "Autumn Grasses and Water" from the Suntory Museum of Art. The textiles in it are all Edo period, but there's a lot of earlier period lacquer ware in it - like these Kamakura period boxes (I WANT!)- and it's all in color.
I also scored a 1920 edition of Diaries of Court Ladies Of Old Japan and a rather intriguing little book called The Black Ship Scroll, by Oliver Statler, which excerpts scroll paintings depicting the arrival of the Perry expedition at Shimoda in 1854. I did NOT commit to buying the $100 book on Japanese textile designs, even if it was reduced from $250. I thought about it, but almost everything in it is Edo period. I opted to invoke Shopping Karma. If I go back in a month or so and it's still there - and my budget will permit - it's meant to be mine. If not, not.
