Step Four: Serve and enjoy (High Tea)

 

Step Three: Add hot water and infuse the tea ..

Step Two: Add dry tea into "pre-heated" tea-pot

Step one: Bring water to the boil ... jizaikagi (自在鉤 .. adjustable pothook

 

Printing ..Emil Orlik, ‘Nihon no surishi (A Japanese printer)’, 1901.

Traditional Wood-Block printing .. note the Downward angle of the printing work-surface ... this greatly reduces the stress and fatigue that will develop printing on a flat surface. The downward angle will vary based on the Printers preference.

Morning walk..slow progress on Fwy re-construction:.....

Adding to a personal Lexicon .. Lanceolate:

lanceolate

Definition:(adjective) Tapering from a rounded base toward an apex.

Synonyms: Lance-like

Usage:The bush had lanceolate leaves with sharp tips that could sting unwary passersby.

A slightly different (shaped) Pu-Erh tea cake TUO-CHA

TUOCHA: from 2005

Shaped like a bird’s nest or a thick bowl, tuocha is also a common shape of pu erh, this one is 250 grams  Xiaguan has been recognised as a superior factory that is specialized in production of this particular form. This cake is an eclectic mix of: Raw Pu-er and various Herbs and Flowers. Not a first choice of mine.

Traditional Japanese dress: Current with details and styles over the ages

 

Of VERY Little Value

I grew up with some phrases that denoted that "something" was of very little or no value:

"Not worth a Tinker's Dam": Tinker's-dam - a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The dam material is a single use, once used it is thrown away as worthless." Tinkers used to travel offering to mend: pots, pans, utensils, sharpen knives and scissors

"Not worth a Dam": A dam was a small Indian copper coin of very little monetary value.

"Not worth the Candle": Not worth the necessary effort, cost, or trouble. Also alludes to gambling by candlelight, which involved the expense of illumination. If the winnings were not sufficient, they did not warrant the expense. 

More Shelf's Re-Organized ...

Some Tea Accouterments .... 6 of 14 shelf's re-organized

 

Three Pu-Erh Tea Cakes .. (1) 2005 & (2) 2007

Crouching Tigers ... waiting ...

Stuff from a son's stash:....

A second tea gift arrived ... Front wrapper and back sticker, for English speakers.

Gift arrival .... happy days

Opening the 2009 60th. year anniversary tea cake

60th. Year Anniversary Tea Cake .. 1949 - 2009

 

The British Museum; Selling 200 Digital Pieces by Hokusai

The British Museum Rides the Wave of NFTs, Selling 200 Digital Pieces by Hokusai

The engravings sold by the French startup LaCollection.io include two copies of ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’.

Reproductions of original creations or associated with new pieces, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a means of encryption that allows the buyer to ‘own’ a digital work that is protected under copyright. It can be the digital version of a painting, but also of a digital creation, a GIF, a video or even a tweet…

Held from 30 September 2021 to 30 January 2022, the exhibition Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything is composed of over 100 drawings by the master that were intended to be included in a book that was never published and that was rediscovered in a collection in Paris in 2019.

Pieces that attract new collectors 

Thus, the British Museum proposes 100 NFTs based on digital versions of pieces presented in the exhibition, while the 100 others are from the museum’s collections.

NFTs attract ‘new collectors with an average age of 32, generation 2.0, who buy art at lower prices but as a lifestyle, with art remaining, in the face of all that is reproducible, the last unique gesture’, Thierry Ehrmann explains on the occasion of the publication of the report released yearly by his company ArtPrice. Recently, a piece by the artist Beeple — previously unknown in the art world — sold for $69 million, making it the third most expensive work of art in the world sold at auction.

This sale is organised by the French startup LaCollection.io, founded by Jean-Sébastien Beaucamps. The pieces are classified into different categories: ‘unique’ (only one copy), ‘ultra rare’ (two copies), ‘limited’ (1000 copies) and ‘common’ (10,000 copies). The works in the ‘common’ category are priced from $500 — some are sold at fixed prices while others are auctioned. The division of the proceeds between LaCollection.io and the British Museum has not been revealed, but buyers can pay for their purchase in traditional money or cryptocurrency.

Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything (30 September 2021 – 30 January 2022), an exhibition of pieces by Katsushika Hokusai held at the British Museum in London.