Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes girl praying and the Tel Aviv Museum

and the Tel Aviv Museum

curious and gentle seeming presence

and with a wonderful face that gives him a bit of a seal-like aspect

which I am sure replaced the original the rivet or metal loop

Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes girl praying and the Tel Aviv MuseumOf course I wish I could read Japanese to know what is written on the right hand page of each spread in this lovely early 20th century manuscript notebook, but the sumi ink drawings on the left of the spread (58 total by my count) more than stand on their own. Each drawing painting is of a landscape view framed by an oval border, with each seeming like a portrait of a specific place at a specific moment sometimes with rain streaming down, sometimes