After a long and hot summer, I am happy to present Euronetsuke #70 for your autumn perusal. As always, I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to it. Our chapter only functions through the efforts of its membership. Peter Ayre reports on a very successful chapter visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as well as providing a biography of a lesser known British collector, William Anderson. I’m particularly happy to have a new contributor, Giles Read, who tells us about his changing tastes over the years.
Val Dryagin continues to share his research on Sansho, answering the reactions and comments that followed his article in issue #69. Val’s article was highlighted on our Facebook page and provoked a lively response. I’m not sure that everyone on the Facebook group is actually subscribed to Euronetsuke, which means their comments sometimes reflect the fact that they have only read excerpts. To this end we have now introduced a digital only membership category so that subscribers can easily access the journal without receiving the printed copy. In addition to this we have now got issues 31-69 available online on our website, with 1-30 to be added shortly. I would like especially to thank Pietro Slavich for running our Facebook page and offering thought provoking material to followers.
The committee all put their time and effort into the success of our chapter and I thank them all for their unerring support.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in Brussels and to the loan exhibition of netsuke from Belgian collections, curated by Arie de Vos.
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Moments before sending this issue off to Creative Wisdom, I have received the devastating news that Sue Wraight has passed away after getting into trouble while snorkelling. Sadly her friends were unable to revive her. We will publish a proper tribute to this lovely and talented lady in our next issue.
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Rosemary Bandini