I picked up an old sketchbook this morning and a little drawing slipped out. I made it when the Sky Tree was brand new. It still seems new to me. Wonder how many years old it is. Google says 2010, so 11 years old.
This little sketch seems like yesterday and forever ago.
I was experimenting with new ink and paper. Things were newer then. Yesterday I walked through Jimbocho I noticed something new. Jumbled collections of used brushes. Three different book stores had them in their piles of cheap books on the sidewalk.
I had noted the stores that sold brushes, washi paper and ink closing down. That was a few years ago. Now it seems the old folks that used to patronize them are turning in their brushes. Hand crafted expensive, now old and junk.
It reminded me of trying to sell my father’s law books after he died. They had cost a fortune to buy. But