Hillel began collecting his first Japanese woodblock prints after discovering Sosaku Hanga artist Haku Maki's work while searching for chawans for drinking Japanese green tea. The prints instilled in him a profound sense of contemplative stillness and the green tea definitely heightened his experience.
Hi -- apologies for contacting you out of the blue -- but are you THE Hillel Krauss who shared a house in Somerville MA with me (and your brother Jeremy) and a bunch of other people back in the early 1980s? Estelle (Kunoff) Epstein called me up last week -- and she's managed to track down virtually everyone who lived there: Zvika (now Zvi), Maia, Rosabel (now Rose), Leah, Sara Lynn, Helise, Yale... and me.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow: they're getting together for a long-overdue Zoom "house-meeting" next week (Mon 15th, 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight time -- 9:30 pm here in the UK)... It would be great to see you if you're free!
My e-mail at work is w.e.kunin@leeds.ac.uk -- for some reason your website auto-filled with my g-mail address, which I never use. Let me know if you're free to join us.
And thanks for posting all the beautiful Japanese prints; it made tracking you down a real pleasure!
Your housemate (I think)
Bill (Kunin)
I think you’ve found your man! Here is some info from the web to confirm: Hillel Krauss is a Canadian-Israeli print collector specializing in Sosaku Hanga and modern Japanese woodblock prints, including works by Gen Yamaguchi, Masaji Yoshida, Hide and Yuzaburo Kawanishi, and Hodaka and Chizuko Yoshida. He also developed a movement practice called Shinui Martial Dance blending Contact Improvisation with Tai Chi Chuan and Aikido.
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