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Busting your ass CAN pay off

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:28:40 -0800

Becoming a '??' (tradesman) in Japan. A 'gaijin' entrepreneur has been detailing his woodblock printing craft and business in a self-published quarterly journal over the past 15+ years. I found his series of autobiographical essays to be a very worthwhile read, reminiscent of Pirsig's first novel for some reason.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:41:26 -0800

'??' is 'shoku-nin'. s'pose if you know the readings you don't need to see the pretty kanji characters themselves ☹

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:29:08 -0800

I see pretty question marks and squares instead.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:42:28 -0800

if you send the character codes to Matt, he may be able to change things for you.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:12:50 -0800

The question mark characters (??) just indicate where I was trying to be cute with kanji. It's not critical to the story. (I doubt this will work either).

By: kliuless

kliuless — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:17:49 -0800

i had the same problem one time, but dorian provided a fix :D cheers!

By: armage

armage — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:44:56 -0800

職人

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:47:20 -0800

Here goes... 職人 raw = 職人 (In the post I used raw decimal & codings, the fix you linked says the db can't handle 5-digit entities)

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:24:43 -0800

Aside from all that, truly excellent links, Heywood Mogroot - great find - thank you!

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:25:02 -0800

Also see Clifton Karhu who has been making beautiful ukiyo-e here in Kyoto since the sixties.

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:26:47 -0800

Woodblocks, hmmmmmm..... thanks for the post. I am home sick with the flu and you just made my day.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:03:40 -0800

Domo arigato gozaimasu!

By: ahimsakid

ahimsakid — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:59:13 -0800

Here's another who's been at it a while.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:55:43 -0800

(ahimsakid: woodblock.com is maintained by the same guy, David Bull)