Do you have photos of your ebira - I'd like to see the great job you did. Regards, Kyostti In a message dated 9/30/04 4:50:20 PM Central Daylight Time, ...
They shouldn't come apart just by being washed, unless you're really, really bad at handsewing. I handsew most of my garb, and I always wash it in the machine....
The best way to present your work in an A&S exhibit is to treat your work as a science project. Using a poster board with pictures, diagrams, and explanation...
... I too made a pair or waraji for fighting. But I was thrown out of the lists and forced to put on a more conventional style of foot wear in order to...
... All of this talk about A&S stuff is making me want to enter some of the work I have been done and have been working on lately. But I'm sure the event is on...
I once entered a prize tourney A.S. competition at Pennsic...I entered one of my ebira...totally period in craftsmanship...and was shot down by the Lady (I use...
If you know someone who is going, ask them if they will take your work. My Temari have been to more events than I have, including Pennsic and Gulf Wars....
Reviewing the CORPORA (Revised 2004): As a living history group, the Society provides an environment in which members can recreate various aspects of the...
... game. ... As strange as it may seem coming from a bushi who has participated in the SCA for over 20 years, I don't think that we should. I empathize with...
... game. ... Date-dono, I can do not but agree with you, in all ways. The current SCA system is byased and bigoted...and is not even equal in terms of...
Otagiri-dono... Not unconventional thoughts, tomodachi...for those of us who wear hakama... There is nothing stopping us, in reality, from holding such Asian ...
... in ... As an SCA member who plays both as a European and a Japanese, I don't think we need to. There were fantasy characters at the First Tourney, for...
Provocative one... fighting the tide so gently... living so grandly... can those people even know... the things you find attractive? Sadly mistaken, fenced in...
... wrote:' Wow! I hope you're saving this stuff, Date-dono. These are good. Now I have to think..... ... Ever shifting sand Fights not the swirling torrents ...
Date-dono, I am so impressed; I have GOT to learn to write poetry like this. Rizii ... From: Date Saburou Yukiie To: sca-jml@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
You are definitely my kind of people. Wish you lived closer. Rizii ... From: makiwara_no_yetsuko To: sca-jml@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004...
I hope someone is saving this stuff. I'd love to have a collection of poetry (all writing, that is) from this group to read at my leisure. Is this possible? ...
Rest assured, Date-dono, I am learning to do my part to infiltrate the Western mind, up here in Minnesota (Northshield). And I have two enthusiastic youngsters...
I am but a humble fighting man, in service to my lord, Sir Ogami Akira...and fighting to reenstate the legitimate son of heaven, to his throne... Date... ... ...
I'm game. I'm tired of 'the world revolves around the Western white man' mentality. And I'm not even a PC (politically correct) type of person..... and I'd...
Very wise words indeed. It takes much patience for that kind of plan, but, I think, the effect might last longer. Any good Samurai want to move up here and...
... of poetry (all writing, that is) from this group to read at my ... I try to save mine. They get added my web page. Due to intellectual property issues, I...
... *nods* I had gotten Ruri from Dalby's book "Tale of Murasaki". But there are a few others I like and would you be so kind as to look over them? - Ayame ...
I'll get there. I'd just like to read a lot more first, then one day the words will come of their own accord. I almost jumped in on the poetry game last week,...
Makiwara-hime, I like your prose too!! ... Date The frost drawing near words brushed like quiet wispers... exposing one's heart... Forget they have never...
... Sure. Inspiration strikes when it strikes. Even though they're in translation (with all the limitations that entails) read some "real" ones by Japanese...
... Flatterer! Stop that. I'm not going to get ANY work done at this rate. ... Did you mean "souls" there or are you trying to play footsie? ... Sigh. How can...
... Makiwara-dono, I agree wholeheartedly there. I've learned to enjoy my Japanese persona that I'm still developing, but that doesn't mean I still don't love...
