| In the last couple of years I've become
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| | time, I just didn't want to pay the price
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| interested in a couple of Japanese
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| | that they had bid up to.Buying stuff on
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| related subjects. Zatoichi, "The Blind
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| | eBay takes a certain predisposition for
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| Samurai", which I accidentally clicked
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| | patience, I've got some of the stuff but
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| into while watching "Samurai Saturday" on
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| | on the whole I would have to confess to a
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| the IFCTV channel is number one. In case
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| | general shortfall of it. I made the
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| you are not up on Zatoichi, he's a
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| | decision and I decided that I would wade
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| chubby, blind, Yakuza who is kinda
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| | in and buy a Hiroshige woodblock that I
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| lovable, but is deadly when it comes to
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| | had found, I would have gotten it too if
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| cutting up people with his special
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| | I hadn't been outbid - in the last 30
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| sword.The funny thing about that sword is
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| | seconds.
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| he holds it upside down. I finally
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| | Now, I'm neither cynical or overly
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| figured out that because he was blind,
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| | skeptical, but the fact that this person
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| they wouldn't let him go to the regular
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| | was able to skin me just a few seconds
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| Samurai school, so he just stumbled along
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| | before the bell hit a sour note with me.
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| as best he could and ended up teaching
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| | I repeated this exercise a couple of
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| himself. I doubt he even knows he holds
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| | times with the end result being I still
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| it upside down.There was a guy a couple
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| | didn't own a print. I decided that there
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| of years ago who went around in the
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| | may be some "black ops" software out
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| movies claiming to be Zatoichi, but you
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| | there that allows one to better advantage
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| could tell right off he was a fake, even
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| | oneself in this, the art of eBay
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| before the first arm was cut off because
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| | battle.Okay, I got to it and did a little
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| he had blond hair. Zatoichi, with his
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| | sniffing around and sure enough, I found
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| shaved, monk looking hair was ahead of
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| | the software that would put me on equal
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| his time and at no time would he have
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| | footing with these 30 second guys. I did
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| dyed it blond.My second interest is
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| | a little better than that though, the one
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| Japanese woodblock prints. Once I saw the
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| | I found would let me hold my bid close to
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| bright colors of these Japanese style
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| | my chest, and with only 3 seconds to go,
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| woodblock art and the everyday life of
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| | I was able to raise and it was too late
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| the Japanese people subject matter, I was
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| | for the other guy. I'm sure he is still
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| hooked. It also interested me because
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| | trying to figure it all out.The thing
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| those Japanese artists used the same
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| | that will kill a new hobby faster than
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| technique, at least to me anyhow, that
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| | anything, at least that I've been able to
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| the old comic book printers used.
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| | dig up, is that no matter how much you
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| I began to read about woodblock prints
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| | argue with yourself that this is the last
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| and looked at a bunch of them on the
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| | one you are going to buy of this or that
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| Internet and in a few of those giant
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| | for a while, you always seem to run
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| coffee table books that never end up on
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| | across another one you really can't pass
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| the coffee table. They are usually used
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| | on.To prove my point in the clearest way
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| by your spouse mixed in with a stack of
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| | I can think of. just go through Jeff's
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| other coffee table books to provide a
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| | old posts and add up all the camera stuff
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| steady base for a lamp. Not long after, I
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| | he has managed to put in inventory. I'm
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| discovered that you could buy these
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| | not saying Jeff is addicted, or anything
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| prints on eBay.Soon, I began to try to
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| | of that nature, but he sure seems to have
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| buy a print. I was most interested in
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| | a tendency to get more than a few fancy
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| seeing if I could get a Hiroshige for a
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| | gadgets that he "just happened" to run
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| good price. Hiroshige was what I would
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| | across on his way to the train station.
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| say was the Japanese version of Norman
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| | I'm satisfied with the prints I have now
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| Rockwell. eBay is an excellent place to
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| | and don't plan on buying any more in the
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| buy things. I bought a laptop, credit
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| | near future, the chief reason being I
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| card terminal printer, a Sanada Hiroyuki
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| | don't ever travel by train. I have them
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| movie, and a few other items that are now
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| | framed and mounted on the wall of my
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| used to stack lamps on.I almost bought an
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| | office here at home. It's satisfying,
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| antique Samurai sword, but luck being
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| | looking at them and thinking about the
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| with me I was out bid by what I
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| | Japan I remember. Of course this was
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| eventually found out to be a shill who
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| | after the Meiji period, but before the
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| was bidding for the company selling the
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| | eBay period so I expect my memories of
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| sword. He was trying to bid up the price.
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| | Japan don't match the reality of
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| As a proper reward, they ended up buying
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| | Japan.Steve McArthurSteve writes articles
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| their own fake, Chinese made, Japanese
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| | on a varity of subjects that he is
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| sword because I didn't take the bait. Of
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| | interested in.
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| course, I didn't know all this at the
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