Korzo at 5Hoog & Japanese bookbinding at UB
February 28th, 2010
Last Friday I joined a small workshop on Japanese Bookbinding at the UB. It was quite interesting to learn about its tradition and to spend 20 minutes fiddling with paper, needle and thread, glue and objects to hammer with. But most spectacular were the Japanese books on exhibit just for this workshop. They were taken from the Siebold House’s vault and worth a fortune. Maps, travel-guides for Tokio’s eighteenth-century’s red-light district, anatomy books with folding-away limbs and strategically placed towels (no really!) were on display. Seriously impressive stuff if you’re into books!
After the workshop Alexandra and me went for beers and spontaneously decided to go see a dance show in Den Haag. We got on the train and walked for about 15 minutes to the theatre 5Hoog, which is actually an old and empty office building close to the railroad tracks. The show was crap (something about a dream–which doesn’t help trying to interpret the show), but the view from the cafe was breathtaking! We got back to Leiden at about 23:30, after eating at a small take-away Falafel off of Spui, and despite biking home through the rain in Leiden I thought the day splendid.
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.
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