“How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.” H.D. Thoreau, Journal, 1856 I don’t know if in those days astronomers knew that every bit of Earth was once part of a star. Being…
In June I was very fortunate to travel to Japan. My host and good friend Murata-san has a fantastic collection of Edo and Meiji period metalwork housed at the Kiyomizu-Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto. KIYOMIZU-SANNENZAKA MUSEUM Murata-san is always very kind and generous in making pieces available for me to examine in hand and to photograph….
