Love the incorporation of color into your writing. While living in Japan in the 60s and early 70s my mom studied woodblock printing under one of the Japanese masters living in Tokyo at the time. I wish I could remember his name, but he is the one who did the cover work for Mitchner's book that took place in Japan and includes a commentary on a tree growing on the airfield on the Atsugi Naval base. The tree was said to be a prince who was transformed into a tree and that anyone who tried to cut down the tree would die. Everyone who had tried to cut down the tree HAD died under weird circumstances, so the tree stayed, and the airstrip was built around it.
I lived on the airbase and knew of the tree before actually seeing it written about in Mitchner's book, Sayonara. I think the artist was Wantanabe, as my dad has the Noah's Ark print he did hanging in his home.
Love the incorporation of color into your writing. While living in Japan in the 60s and early 70s my mom studied woodblock printing under one of the Japanese masters living in Tokyo at the time. I wish I could remember his name, but he is the one who did the cover work for Mitchner's book that took place in Japan and includes a commentary on a tree growing on the airfield on the Atsugi Naval base. The tree was said to be a prince who was transformed into a tree and that anyone who tried to cut down the tree would die. Everyone who had tried to cut down the tree HAD died under weird circumstances, so the tree stayed, and the airstrip was built around it.
I lived on the airbase and knew of the tree before actually seeing it written about in Mitchner's book, Sayonara. I think the artist was Wantanabe, as my dad has the Noah's Ark print he did hanging in his home.
That’s incredible! Thank you for sharing that story.
Wonderful post! And fantastic idea I think it’ll be a great success!
Thank you!