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About Me
- Littlestone
- Studied art and design at Swindon School of Art, Wiltshire, England and afterwards Japanese painting and calligraphy at Kyoto University of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan. In 1966 I was a lay monk at the Zen Buddhist temple of Ryozen-an in Kyoto and practiced under the guidance of its Director, Ruth Fuller-Sasaki and senior monk Dana R Fraser (co-translator of Layman P'ang: A Ninth Century Zen Classic). Also present at Ryozen-an was the author and poet Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder was one of the first Westerners in Japan to study Zen Buddhism and was the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's book, The Dharma Bums. I was assistant conservator (paintings) at Kyoto National Museum from 1969-1980 and Chief Conservator (Eastern Pictorial Art) at the British Museum from 1980-1986. Japan Foundation Fellow 1973-1974 and Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works since 1985.
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Thanks to moss for posting this 19th century engraving entitled, The Wheel of Time or the Perpetual Calendar of the Druids, on the Modern Antiquarian - I can't think of a more fitting illustration to end the year.
And as 2005 turns to 2006, what else to say but best wishes, health and happiness to one and all, and many thanks again to all those who have contributed to Megalithic Poems.
Oh I really like this. I've actually never seen an artist's conception of it un-ruined. Thanks.
Glad you like it Andy. Meg Poems and the illustrations that go with them are from people who are happy to share what they've found with others - the real thanks goes to them :-)
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