Headlines of Issue No 123 (July 2003)

• My first Herschel tour (1)
  A report by Ms M Matsuo, a member of the Society, on her first Herschel tour.
  
  
• Summer reception in the Herschel Museum
  The William Herschel Society postponed their regular meeting scheduled to be held in July; as last year, they had a reception instead.
  
  
• Observation meeting at Tama Observatory
  Mr Hiroshi Narita, a member of the Society, invites to come to a observation meeting of Mars and Uranus at his observatory.
  
  
• "The World of Nobuko's Art" in Bath Central Library
  Please read the "Main article of the issue".
  
  
• A story of my cloisonné work
  Contribution by Ms N Iizawa, a member of the Society.
  
  

Main article of the issue

"The World of Nobuko's Art" in Bath Central Library

The exhibition titled "World of Nobuko's Art" had been held since 7th July until 19th. Ms Nobuko Iizawa herself planned to visit UK for preparation, however, she got out of health after her individual exhibition in Sapporo in March. After sending out the exhibits, she got unable to carry on during making a poster. The William Herschel Society and the Herschel Society of Japan took on all work in Bath. Matters were quite different from the Commemorative Exhibition for the 250th Anniversary of Caroline Herschel's Birth in Herschel Museum and Slough Museum in the spring three years ago. Still, we had the same purpose to display artistic works mainly concerning Herschel. Fortunately, Prof F Ring, the Chairman of the William Herschel Society was very enthusiastic from the start, and he worked to do publicity, such as issuing a long press release to the people concerned and hanging posters designed by the artist herself in facilities in the city.

Prof Ring and I met at the entrance of the library at 9:15 on 7th July, Monday, the day of opening. I had been staying by accident since one week ago in Platts' Hotel located in 5 minute's walk to the library, in order to help my grand-daughter for her short-term study in an English school. We opened packages of the exhibits which had been sent to Prof Ring directly from Hokkaido, and displayed about 20 great works of cloisonné on the glass shelves with explanation in English and Japanese. Everything got ready before opening the library at 10:00. I also met at 17:30 on 9th Mr and Mrs Ellingworth, the Herschel descendants and took pictures of their writing comments on the exhibition.

"World of Nobuko's Art" had been open everyday including Sunday afternoon for two weeks until the evening on 19th. The exhibits were removed by Mr Tabb and other members of the William Herschel Society and were kept by Prof Ring until next spring. It is under consideration to exhibit the works during that period in the university in Wales where Prof Ring works, the Museum of Eastern Asian Arts in Bath, Slough Museum where Caroline Herschel Exhibition was held three years ago (see the Issue No 101 of the Society's Newsletter), etc.