my latest shikishi borad

[dick benbow]

is something I've desired for awhile...and that is a scroll for display with both japanese and english on it. The japanese to give the "look" I desire and yet a translation on the same board so that others can know what is being said.

 

[bonsaibp]

very cool...

 

[dick benbow]

It's different but it fills i need i have to display caligraphy. The next board is finished and is a high mountain lake scene that can display with my loon decoy and limber pine. It just needs to arrive by mail. I didc ommission another board to have bulls fighting like they do in the mountains of Niigata. It's a popular sport among the koi breeders in spring and summer. a nice acer palmatum, scroll and koi figurines (tenpai) ought to take me back to my former visits there when I can't get back physically.

The only other thing accomplished recently was to have the may issue of the magazine "kinbon" translated
into english on the articles of chojubai quince. was worth the effort and a big thank-you to Bill V
for helping me to obtain that copy!