There aren’t many Asian artists whose work is instantly recognizable. As a casual art consumer, (that is to say that I’ve visited a few art museums in Los Angeles and Seoul) I can think of only one. The Great Wave of Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai.
Oh, yeah, don't you live right on that path of where the total eclipse was going to happen? I don't have facebook, but I've seen pictures of it elsewhere. Now, that would've been cool!!
Yes, on 4/8/2024, Paul and I drove back up to Maine after going to see the Korean Wave: Hallyu exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and were able to view the total eclipse.
This is one of my favorite paragraphs in this essay, but not the only one: ..."However, this shaky belief absolutely falls apart when one considers the nature of jokbo (족보, 族譜)—the family tree book."
"All Korean families have it. I have seen my Jang (장, 張, Chang) family’s entire tree when I was in my late teens, and it is a tome. Think about it. Every (Indong) Jang that has ever lived since around 1050—almost a thousand years! I’m the 34th generation of Indong Jang family, and in the book, I found my name under my dad’s name, my dad’s obviously under my grandfather’s. You know what the catch (& the crappy part of tradition) is? Only sons of the family make it into the jokbo, and no records of any daughters are kept. Damned shame. And guess who appears in the (Goryong) Shin family’s jokbo? Yoon-bok. Game, set, and match. Yoon-bok was a son, a boy, a man."
Yes... some heritage, we can do without. I think they're still excluding daughters' names from the jokbo. Not that I care much about it, but it'd be nice to have my 3 daughters' records on that thing.
Having just seen the eclipse in Maine 4/8/2024, this is how it appeared:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1699242114/solar-eclipse-2024-phases-of-totality?ref=listings_manager_grid&dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2F
Better yet, if you have access to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163452158587926&set=a.10161284008242926 the image is public.
Oh, yeah, don't you live right on that path of where the total eclipse was going to happen? I don't have facebook, but I've seen pictures of it elsewhere. Now, that would've been cool!!
Yes, on 4/8/2024, Paul and I drove back up to Maine after going to see the Korean Wave: Hallyu exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and were able to view the total eclipse.
This is one of my favorite paragraphs in this essay, but not the only one: ..."However, this shaky belief absolutely falls apart when one considers the nature of jokbo (족보, 族譜)—the family tree book."
"All Korean families have it. I have seen my Jang (장, 張, Chang) family’s entire tree when I was in my late teens, and it is a tome. Think about it. Every (Indong) Jang that has ever lived since around 1050—almost a thousand years! I’m the 34th generation of Indong Jang family, and in the book, I found my name under my dad’s name, my dad’s obviously under my grandfather’s. You know what the catch (& the crappy part of tradition) is? Only sons of the family make it into the jokbo, and no records of any daughters are kept. Damned shame. And guess who appears in the (Goryong) Shin family’s jokbo? Yoon-bok. Game, set, and match. Yoon-bok was a son, a boy, a man."
Yes... some heritage, we can do without. I think they're still excluding daughters' names from the jokbo. Not that I care much about it, but it'd be nice to have my 3 daughters' records on that thing.
I love fathers like you, and I'm sure your wife and daughters do as well.
Fascinating! Thanks for researching and sharing.
Thank you for the comments. I remember reading about the story somewhere years ago and had to refresh my memory.