It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.

Zoe Dusanne, one of the area's first gallery owners, took an interest in four of the young Japanese painters -- Nomura, Tsutakawa, Horiuchi and John Matsudaira, a Nisei painter in the area.

two glass flacons for the ink

You needn't take such liberties.