2009-07-02

gurdymonkey: (pretties)
2009-07-02 09:01 pm

Now if only my headache would go away.

I was watching a preview of the new Ken Burns series on the National Parks (premiers on PBS this fall) and they excerpted a quote by a painter named Chiura Obata with one of his paintings. With the wonder of Google, I immediately began searching for more: 

http://www.hanga.com/prints.cfm?ID=53
http://obata.wilderness.net/
http://www.castlefinearts.com/Japanese_fine_arts_woodblock_prints/Chiura_Obata_Biography.aspx

Enjoy!

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"What do you mean, 'we,' tomodachi?"  Re the Helpful Hannah who thinks "we" should write a Japanese version of the Known World Handbook, I want to know: 

Whether she realizes that some of the stuff on her wish list already exists in some form or other on the internet, courtesy of various SCA contributors (including myself). A good 80% of it is already on  Sengokudaimyo.com already.

How many articles she plans to research and write, since the rest of us are obviously slacking. 

Is it a bad idea? Not necessarily, however, it will require a lot more work than I think she realizes. And there's that bit where some of it does already exist if one bothers to go and look for it.