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My notebooks tells me
that this was our New Year card for 1984, but I
think that was just 'cheating'. I made it (a
reproduction of a Hokusai painting) just for
practice, as with all these prints, and then when
the New Year approached, must have simply sent this
one instead of making something more appropriate.
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Time was a bit tight; I was about to
start a three-month leave of absence from the music
business, with the main purpose of taking our new
daughter on an around-the-world trip to visit
grandparents in Japan and England. Of course, once
we were in Japan, I would just maybe have a chance
to visit some printmaking craftsmen and publishers?
As it turned out, I had very little chance to do
so; we were only in Japan for a month or so, and
most of that was taken up with visiting the family
out in the countryside ... way out in the
countryside. But I did have a chance to visit a
couple of places where I could see printing being
done, and frantically filled a little notebook with
scribbled memos about what I was seeing.
I also stopped to see Shimano san the block
planer, and placed an order for some blocks to be
shipped back to Canada, where they would be ready
for me when I returned.
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