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Also saw the My Neighbour Totoro stageplay, which was very good. May write more about that later, out for a meal with my aunt and uncle soon.

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For lunch today, went to a Chinatown restaurant and had chicken satay plus crispy pork on rice — straightforward choices but good.

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An unusual example of latticework with an image in it.

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Wooden frame of a teahouse, without the thin clay walls that would normally cover the lattices.

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Old-fashioned Japanese saws. These developed from long two-man saws introduced from China about the 15th century, before that chisel-splitting was used instead.

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An assemblage from the wooden pieces, representing the corner of a temple roof.

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Went to a small exhibition at Japan House on Japanese carpentry. Historically, this used fairly few nails, performing joinery with complex cuts to the wood to fit them together instead.

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Tomorrow will be seeing the stage version of My Neighbour Totoro.

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Dinner at Mummy Pho’s in Woolwich — spicy chicken rice noodle soup and three-colour dessert with pandan jelly, mung beans and adzuki beans in coconut milk.

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Greek food for lunch — stuffed vine leaves and grilled chicken.

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Print of a carp from Hiroshige’s Edo series.

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Some of Hiroshige’s bird prints.

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A Hiroshige print and Vincent van Gogh’s imitation of it — Japanese prints teaching the West in this era inspired many artists. The outlines that Hiroshige uses to give form have been replaced by impressionistic brushstrokes.

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This print shows women at the hot springs in Hakone.

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Some prints were created in deliberate variations. In this case the versions are different times of day, with different seasons also common.

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Don’t think I’ve seen this use of triptych in Japanese prints before — possibly resulting from limitations in printing on a large scale, being used simply to extend an image as here.

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An early Hiroshige. Instead of the tranquil landscape and nature images he’s best known for, this illustrates the China-set kabuki play The Battles of Coxinga. The more stylised figures compared to his other works show it’s referencing the play rather than the history.

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Went to the Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum. He’s the second-best known Japanese woodblock print artist after Hokusai, particularly known for the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, a series of landscapes set at the stations on the road between Edo and Kyoto. This is the first, Nihonbashi.

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Flying back to London tomorrow, spending two or three days before heading home.

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Back to the Italian place near my hotel which I’ve been to twice before for dinner. Pizza Dialova this time, topped with spicy salami.

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For lunch, a selection of Luxembourgish sausages. The reddish one, the Mettwurst, is the same as was in the soup I had yesterday. It’s smoky and garlicky, close to chorizo in taste without the paprika but a minced texture.

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Have these faded or were they deliberately painted this way. If the latter, it’s funny how they’d predate most black-and-white/sepia associations we have today.

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Much of the permanent exhibition was devoted to Dutch masters. This picture’s called “The King Drinks”

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Went to the Villa Vauban art gallery. The temporary exhibition was on Jean-Pierre Beckius, a Luxembourgish Impressionist. Some paintings of his here.

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Breakfast, with a Tresse Noisette and Cherry Streusel.

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Last day in Luxembourg today, which I decided to make a quieter one so I could rest up a bit and pack.

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