Showing posts with label netsuke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netsuke. Show all posts

gifts for mushroom people





















A Showa era netsuke of a frog and a mushroom.

A portable, rechargeable lamp for perusing field guides.

A mushroom mystery box, because opening it up is just like hunting for mushrooms—you don't know what you'll find.

An image of a wanderer in a forest of colossal fungi.

A nifty knife and brush, for collecting and cleaning specimens.

Plugs for cultivating your own Tremella fuciformis, a.k.a. snow fungus, or a tremella serum.

A one-strap vest, because extra pockets come in handy on forays.

And a single-issue magazine designed to evoke the experience of walking through a leaf-shadowed forest and stumbling upon unexpected wonders in patches of light. Includes mushroom chatrooms, radical mycologists, spore prints, astrology, death eaters, poisons, folklore, jokes, grief, mycelial facts and factoids, memories, cult perfumes, neuroscience, people who dress like mushrooms, and a Q & A with my very favorite mycophile (Hugh, of course). I talk a little bit about it here.

this weekend


Creepy things and other fun:
In other news, Gilda interviewed me for her blog, A Collection Of - impostors, daily routines, and my reading list these days all discussed. Much fun.

Happy weekend.

Photo: 19th century ivory netsuke of a skeleton astride a skull. Found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

moon shaped


     My single star is gone, the one
I like to call mine. Instead, a thick haze
     of moonlight. Just as my mother did
when she was growing old, I sit in the darkness,
     getting used to how little I can see.

Jim Moore, from 'Disappearing in America' in Invisible Strings. Found here.

Kou: Carved ivory netsuke in the shape of grasses by the light of the moon. Late 19th century. Diameter 4.5 cm.

In the V & A Collections.