About the great Japanese artist, his fellow traveler and incredible storyteller and that if you know how to listen, you do not have to go anywhere

Once the great Japanese artist of Akutagawa Yoshitora being guests in a very polite society, I heard from a friend a story about the great and strange city called London. And so colorfully familiar told about this strange place that the great master decided that it is simply obliged to draw this city of magnificence and sin. Well, he sat down next to the same friend, sat himself, beautifully crossed his legs and drew this triptych. Well, rather, not just painted, and first drew, and then cut out, because it is not posto drawing, and such Japanese engraving, called moku-Hanga. And if you know what Ukiyo-e, it is about the same. That is, the only difference between Ukiyo-e and moku-Hanga was that in moku-Hanga all the stages - both drawing and cutting were done by one person. And he also decided how many copies to print. So same-all one thing and, too,. First drawing, then the tree and stigile. And in Ukiyo-e, one person would make a drawing, and then someone else would cut it out, and a third person would decide how many copies to print, because that third person would sell them and pay the first two people money. But never mind. We are the triptych of Akutagavy Yoshitora. It shows, in case you hadn't guessed, a street scene near the Thames, with sailboats, pedestrians, horses and everything that could be found on a London street in 1866. The friend said that everything is very similar to it turned out and no Londoner will not be able to find any even the most microscopic differences. Well, Akutagawa Yoshitora never went to London. If he wanted to look at it, he just looked at his triptych. That's the story.