Email #6: Sent October ^10th, 2009 to All Members & Subscribers

International Netsuke Society
Northwest Chapter

You are cordially invited to attend our luncheon meeting:
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 1:00 pm
Seattle, Washington

Please RSVP by October 20th!

For information on the meeting location, contact Richard Hieronymus (see below), who will then send you the correct address (at a private club) and directions, and add you to the "invited list." Guest Speaker: Paul Moss Paul Moss will present new information on netsuke-shi Otoman aka Matsushita (surname) Otoman. He was a remarkably different, unique, stylistically one-off master carver from Hakata, near Nagasaki, in Kyushu. Recent information comes from Nori Watanabe with the fact that he has been doing some research on Otoman in Kyushu, and has come to the remarkable conclusion that the strange and intriguing carver Bokugyuken (an art name, not a surname) Toshiharu was his teacher. There doesn't seem to have been much to connect them, stylistically, unless you consider the idea that every single model, experiment or essay seems to have been made in the spirit of being completely different from the last one as some sort of identifying characteristic. Come to our meeting. Bring any Otoman and Bokuygyuken netsuke you own for our amazement. As Paul recently wrote me, ”pin back your overwhelmed and amazed capacity to learn.”

RSVP by October 20th to:
Richard Hieronymus
E-mail: RHMusic_netsuke@interisland.net
Or phone (360) 378-3556

Bon Appetite!