
Life | WEEK 3 Jun 16, 2013
Family-crest master fears he's one of a dying breed
by Tomoko Otake
Dressed in a black kimono and wearing a pair of eye-catching black, triple-framed spectacles, Shoryu Hatoba straightens his back as he sits on the tatami floor of his quaint studio in Ueno, central Tokyo, holding a pair of bamboo compasses fitted with a brush ...