if you paint that still life I will do the glyphs.

Sure, it's a deal. I went through a phase of painting (mainly watercolors and acrylics) back in the '80s of the previous century. Let me just say my paintings were less enjoyable than my shakuhachi playing. I guess I could use Photoshop, but that would be cheating. wink I was inspired by a documentary I watched yesterday afternoon on Alfred Stieglitz and the artists he was associated with.

Now for two of those words. Japanese shakuhachi is a length, 1.8 shaku 'foot' (actually 30.3 cm, 0.99 ft). (There are other sizes of bamboo flute.) I have always liked the term still-life, but I like the French term better, nature morte 'dead nature'.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.