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Chewing on any old twig can also make a wonderful impromptu brush 🤭

Last but not least, trial with a simple piece of birch branch, trimmed, soaked only in water, and generously beaten with a pebble (wrap the end in a piece of toweling to prevent damage). Made by yours-truly

Bamboo-fiber brushes (made in one piece by using the fibers of the plant after removing the outer skin, soaking in lime and beating the end to reveal the fibers) are presumably much older

On the duck-feather brush, it does not say a great deal
other than it is recorded in the Tang that duck-feathers were mixed with pheasant and sparrow feathers, and their mixed colors looked lovely
鴨毛筆
唐段公路《北戶錄》載: "昔溪源有鴨毛筆，以山雞毛、雀雉毛間之， 五色可爱"
A search using snippets of the above might yield more…

Contents list of brushes types
from
中國書法大詞典 Zhōngguó shūfǎ dà cídiǎn
2 vols., Hong Kong: 1984

Thread on (odd) duck-feather and Bamboo-fiber brushes 🖌 from a CN calligraphy encyclopedia

中國書法大詞典 Zhōngguó shūfǎ dà cídiǎn
2 vols., Hong Kong: 1984

📌Both brush types can be used to emphasize the flying-white technique (for which we have a soft-blank-paper-spot ;–)

Spoiler ‼️ Found an old usb memory stick with 2021/2 pix for x-twitter posts will pick best to post where kites fly free…

A torii (gate) stands at the bottom of stairs flanked by two stone lanterns. Beyond is a large stretch of water with land on the other side. It is a clear, bright, sunny day. A woman can be seen on the steps. A small timber boat is in the right foreground.

'Pacific Ocean, Boshu' from the third Souvenirs of Travel Series - Kawase Hasui, 1925.
#ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

NYT bringing us all the latest headlines from 771 BCE…

Third and final day of celebrations for the Spring Festival ...
Travelling back to our QP desk tomorrow... so carpe diem today

Spring festival

Happy New Year.... plus the calander page comes in handy to hide an ugly hotel advertisement frame

Travelling for a few days... galloping a thousand li...

Love ducks by any other name...

Friday 13... stay in bed day!

Thank you for your excellent essay... sent me scuttling to my bookshelf to pull out related items that epitomise Japanese humour for me from the dogu figurines to the yokai via ⛩️👺now 👏👏👏

Write a book: zhùshū 著書
Chinese #letterpaper
"made by the Ten Bamboo Studio" Shízhúzhāi xiě 十竹齋 寫

The decorated writing-paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio are rightly famous for some stunning woodblock printed stationary that was used mainly for sending poetry, hence aka jiān 箋/牋 or "fine notepaper"

also on Ko-fi our check out our related QP BibNote on the Tongshu 通書 The ubiquitous CN almanac
ko-fi.com/quirinpress/...

Our CN calendar reminder that today is

立春 lìchūn Beginning of Spring

Placing the Equinoxes and Solstices mid-season makes sense to our 💙🧠 《心 xīn, or the heart-mind》😎

Check our Ko-fi site for our
➡️《Chart of the Twenty-four Breaths and Seventy-two Pentads of the Year》

ko-fi.com/quirinpress

A man holds a square wooden box filled with beans. He is taking a handful. Oni (demons) scramble around his feet

‘Kintoki Scattering Beans to Oni’ - Torii Kiyonaga, 1803.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #Setsubun

Glad to see you and "your" opies back !

An 8-vol translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏 (13th cent.) has been published & is available on Jstor. A milestone in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Translators include Carl Bielefeldt, William M. Bodiford, T. Griffith Foulk, and the late Stanley Weinstein.
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13...

guess Europa's depth of water is x 3 or more of what it is on 🌏

Is that water on earth including oceans' saltwater ¿¿¿
Seems very thin layer of seawater given 71% of surface is oceans 🤔

God(s) knows… we could use a bit of humor !

Updated our banner's CEO designation:

Posts by OB 😎C.onscientiously E.xacting O.bjectifier

No takers ?¿

🥁🎉For the discerning bibliographer:
a nearly free book ex our library (postage from AU)

Catalogue of Indian (Buddhist) texts in Tibetan Translation Kanjur & Tanjur

Vol. I TEXTS (INDIAN TITLES) IN TANJUR

BY ALAKA CHATTOPADHYAYA et al

INDO-TIBETAN STUDIES, CALCUTTA 1972

Hardcover, 535pp

💬us

Not sure what to think about that. Remind me in n 4 months...

But there is still a koala up in the ash tree (resting... ash leaves give him the runs... I know... but he had to learn the hard way !-)