Bright and early before it opened at 9am, I was there with cold drink in hand on a warm winter's day, waiting for the doors to slide open at the historic brush shop known as Edo-Ya. My partner in crime had wanted a brush from there, or possibly one from Mason Pearson, and thinking that time was now spent in Japan, rather than idolizing the outside, it would be more appropriate to give patronage to an ongoing Japanese house of handmade production.
With brush in hand, the shopkeeper showed me a woodblock illustration by Hiroshige which depicted the street on which the shop was located (showing of course how it looked three hundred years ago). I was excited to see that Mount Fuji could be seen, but was quickly told that was no longer the case, given all the tall buildings and other nonsense now blocking the view. He did tell me, though, that the newly built Skytree could be seen, but that continues to be of little or no interest to me.
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