and in French) with beautiful illustrations of birds, blossoms, koi fish, kimono-clad women, butterflies, wolves, waves, fishermen, and more. This book celebrates the four seasons of Japan in beautiful ways. The cover is firm and features details in beautiful red foil. The haikus are by the...
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Stone by Stoneis a phrase integral tohis latest work, just as“Lucus Orthai Ta”is central to another of his yet-to-be-released novels. And long ago he described a cloth stitched with circling koi in one of his very early stories, a pivotal scene that led to my creating the Two Fis...
A BIT ABOUT ME, ME' HEARTIES “Having painted and been fascinated by wildlife since childhood, when I first became a professional artist I initially decided to concentrate on one subject and chose the oriental and beautifully ornamental fish, Nishikigoi (Koi) - for their power, grace and colour...
brings the history of paper alive. The differences among all the samples — in touch, appearance and, for some, even smell — is extraordinary. It is hard to choose what is most enjoyable aboutStrange Papers: reading the entries, holding each sample up to the light to examine it, comparing...
They talk too much about their household affairs. They are too fond of bridge. At the end of his chapter on “The Adventuress” (“chief character in tens of thousands of novels in every language under the sun”), he provides us with his “Articles of Association for Adventuresses” —...
But there’s also some cool abstract designs with animals like Koi fish and legendary creatures from Japanese folklore. All-in-all a very fun book for those with wanderlust and a desire to calm the mind through art. View On Amazon
about 8 feet square between them. Each of these has a small door which usually slides up or down. When the tide is coming in both doors are opened and the fish are allowed to go in freely. When the tide turns the doors are closed. When the owner wishes to remove any of the fish ...
I just got this for my husband for his birthday, too. He is about to go to Kim Saigh for his 3rd session on an amazing looking koi fish 1/2 sleeve. It's a beautiful book. I don't have any color tattoos and some of those pictures make me want one... ...
Now that Katsuro is dead, his grief-stricken widow, Miyuki, must take up the task and make the month-long journey, on foot, to the capital, carrying the finest koi. What begins as a strange and exciting journey across the Japanese landscape soon becomes a fierce novel about the commodifica...