In theory, The Ghost Brush, by Katherine Govier (which was evidentially later renamed 'The Printmaker's Daughter') had all the ingredients for a great story. An interesting and troublesome setting, relationships fraught with twisted ideals if love, duty, honor and dependency - rebellion, subversi...
His name was Minamizawa Tomei. He was the son of an oil seller. He was gentle, with the eyes of a child and a shuffling gait. He longed to work with Hokusai. But my father could teach only those who taught themselves. So I worked with Tomei instead and he relied on my example.I liked him. At the ...
They were of faultless colour, shape and lustre. They caused a furore. The next year Japanese pearls went to France.James’s colleagues on the rue du Bac were spitting with venom. They offered their views, in the coffee shops along the street, and on the pavement.‘Does this man Miki – what is it? ...
The flame races back and forth along the narrow cracks, consuming the lines of pale yellow plumes. When there is no more grass to be seen, smoke continues to issue from the cracks between the rocks, as if the fire has sunk deep into the earth itself. When that smoke screen dies, the sailors burn ...