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Baren Digest                Tuesday, 5 May 1998        Volume 03 : Number 146

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:45:38 +0900
Subject: [Baren 706] An upcoming treat ... 

May I toss out a bit of a 'teaser' today?  Nothing you can click on ....
yet.

I had a long visit here this afternoon from Choushi Horimoto, who is one
of the two carvers at the Adachi Institute for Woodblock Prints here in
Tokyo, studying/working there for over fifteen years now.  Adachi's
place is _the_ top place for traditional printmaking here in Japan; ever
since the early part of this century they have been making both
reproductions of old ukiyo-e and original modern prints.

Working in an environment like that, Horimoto-san has learned a _lot_
about carving.  Next to him, I know nothing yet.

Anyway, one purpose of his visit here was to learn a bit about this
internet stuff.  He has been online for a short time now, browsing
around the 'net, and has decided that he would like to put together a
web site that describes and illustrates many of the things he has
learned about this craft.  He is concerned that the details are soon
going to be lost, and wants to try and get as much of his knowledge as
possible down for everybody to share.

I think you can guess how I reacted to this ...

"WHEN DO WE START?!!"

But as I said, there's nothing you can click on yet.  I think he will be
making some contributions to the Encyclopedia soon though, and then
after some learning and preparation, what should be a very interesting
web site will be appearing.

But what do you think - is it better if I don't mention things like this
until they are ready... ?

Anticipation ....


Dave


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