Using the sō script, Shōkadō inscribed 16 love poems on a six-panelled folding screen covered with gold leaf (Kimiko and John Powers Collection, U.S).
Using the sō script, Shōkadō inscribed 16 love poems on a six-panelled folding screen covered with gold leaf (Kimiko and John Powers Collection, U.S.).
Inscriptions themselves have sparked great story lines — the writer Paul Theroux's friendship with his mentor, V. S. Naipaul, went downhill not long after Mr. Theroux spied several of his first editions, inscribed "with love" to Mr. Naipaul, for sale in a rare book catalog.
In Schamus's sunny, high-ceilinged office there are family pictures — he is married to the novelist Nancy Kricorian, and they have two teenage children — and souvenirs from his movies: a "Brokeback Mountain" throw pillow inscribed with "Love Is a Force of Nature"; a green plastic Hulk fist.
Their friendship cooled as Theroux began to be critical of his old mentor, and developed into a full-blown feud in 1996 after he discovered signed copies of his own books, inscribed "with love" to Naipaul and his first wife, for sale at $1,500 each in a rare books catalogue.
This book had been acquired, I'd been told, together with another written by her father that was inscribed:"Nana, love Christopher and Mary".
This might be closest to my heart because he inscribed it 'with love.' He wasn't fond of inscribing books.
She wore a denim purse, its strap running cross-body through the silver "Love" inscribed on her T-shirt.
Afterwards, wander towards the river via "Le mur des je t'aime", a 40-square-metre monument inscribed with "I love you" in 250 languages.
