two glass flacons for the ink

Zoe Dusanne, one of the area's first gallery owners, took an interest in four of the young Japanese painters -- Nomura, Tsutakawa, Horiuchi and John Matsudaira, a Nisei painter in the area.

You needn't take such liberties.

It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.