I tried to rally today (this cold won't get me down!!) and met up with a friend in Kobe, my first ever visit to the area. We went to a ukiyo-e exhibit in a museum, apparently shipped from England's Victoria and Albert museum. Hmm, Ok. Apparently Europe has more ukiyo-e prints than Japan. My friend was rather interested but I was starting to die due ( Read more... )

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed -
Could there have been a frost already?
Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight.
Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.

- Li Bai (Tang poetry, # 233)
Today I went to Kyoto just because I could. There was a small art exhibit for a traditional Japanese artist, ( Kaburaki Kiyokata. )