Research time, looking up examples for a friend’s project, which I can’t discuss further since she wants to surprise people. Also found out one of my favorite online sources, the Multilingual Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan is not where the old links used to be. Fortunately, I did download them and kept extra copies on another harddrive, but I hate that the PDFs aren’t available anymore. Several libraries in the US do have copies of the 3-volume work, although when I did Inter-Library Loan for them a couple of years ago, Stanford University charged me $20! (Most of the time ILL is free or maybe a couple of dollars at most!)

Got in some of the materials for my upcoming RUSH Japanese calligraphy classes. The ink is fine, but I’ll need to prep the brushes. That will probably take a few hours.