Tokyo today is covered with snow... my dog was so apprehensive. Her first exposure in life to a serious snowfall.
Received a great gift from Shun'ichi Mamura, one of our foremost book designers:
108. 間村俊一画集『ジョバンニ』（洋々社）
This is FASCINATING. A series of drawings inspired by Kenji Miyazawa's stories, and surrealistic collages deftly done. As a latter-day surrealist, I think Mamura (b. 1954) is as good as anybody in the world; or simply the BEST.
In the accompanying booklet, Yasuki Fukushima writes Mamura's biography in tankas. This is also unforgattable; an incredible tour de force. I'll probably write somebody's biography as a series of four-line poems... but of whom? Moe Norman? I'd love to.
Dark already; Joyce's The Dead kind of evening. Ainsi soit-il.
