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Last year in January we finally published "Riddles of Ukiyo-e. Women and men in Japanese prints, 1765-1865.", a beautiful book that features 123 of the most beautiful prints (and one painting) by the most famous artists from that time period. It was an accompanying catalogue to an exhibition at @sieboldhuis with the same name. I never really got to posting about it, so here we go.The book came out so great, with a rose gold foil print for the title, hardcover, and purple information pages with some explanatory charts about the more difficult parts of the book etc. In the colophon, my name is printed three times: writer, editor and coordinator. So weird, but so so proud. I've been kind of silent about it, apparently, because at the time, even some of my best friends didn't know I was coordinating an exhibition, writing and editing a book and managing contact with lenders, guest writers, the publisher and several institutions in the Netherlands and abroad. I'd been working on the project since March 2022, and oh my GOD was it a project. I've learned so much in the past year that it's unimaginable. It is also the reason I got so busy I really forgot to update my social media for a whole year, so I'm sorry for the late post. I think it took at least 6 editing rounds to get everything in order and beautiful and we needed a lot of feedback rounds and rewriting but we did it. I've never been as proud of something as I've been about this book. Fyi, available on Bol.com, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles to name a few.昨年1月、私たちはついに『The Riddles of Ukiyo-e』(浮世絵のなぞ)を刊行しました。 江戸時代の最も有名な画家による最も美しい版画123点（と絵画1点）を掲載した美しい本です。 この本は、日本博物館シーボルトハウスで開催された同名の展覧会に付随するカタログでした。 タイトルはローズゴールドの箔押しで、ハードカバー、紫色のインフォメーションページには、本の難しい部分などの解説図があり、とても素晴らしい本になりました。 奥付には、ライター、編集者、コーディネーターと私の名前が3回印刷されています！ とても変な感じだが、とても誇らしいです。 というのも、当時、私が展覧会をコーディネートし、本を執筆・編集し、貸し手、ゲストライター、出版社、オランダ国内外の複数の機関との連絡を管理していることを、親友でさえ知らなかったです笑。 私は2022年3月からこのプロジェクトに取り組んでいました。 この1年で想像を絶するほど多くのことを学びました。 忙しさにかまけて1年間SNSに投稿するのを忘れていたのもそのせいです。 すべてを整え、美しく仕上げるために、少なくとも6回の編集作業が必要だったと思います。 この本ほど誇らしいものはありません。皆さん､応援してくれたありがとうございます。
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Carmen Chan
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Nice!! Congrats!!
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Alix van Brakel
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Zo goed! Staat op m'n wishlist <3
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