masks, ii ... the blog from december 2018 with pictures of masks has reached an unwieldy sum of 500 pictures ... time to start over ...

hayami gyoshu 1894 to 1935

gannets and buccaneers ...

i spent most of the day trying to paint three tiny gannets into "the scenery" and gave some thought to that old marine aircraft named the gannet, which was rarther stout and stumpy, and the aircraft called the buccaneer which sometimes came close to a gannet's grace in flight ...

Domenico Gnoli

 http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/g/gnoli/g.htm

https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/g/gnoli/n.htm

basho's epic journey to the north ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_no_Hosomichi

http://www.sonic.net/~tabine/SAABasho_etc_Spring_2005/basho_folder/SAASpring2005_Basho_01.html

a pdf ...

http://www.tclt.org.uk/basho/Oku_2011.pdf

yoshitoshi's illustration for one hundred aspects of the moon ...