From 2:00 – 4:00PM on Sunday August 12, 2007 the Acadiana Medieval Faire will be hosting an open casting call at the Lafayette Public Library at 301 West...
Hello the list! I am peeking out of the shadows long enough to ask about a book I found while trolling through the Art section of my favorite book haunt ...
I have a copy of the book, and found it very enlightening. There are step-by-step instructions, with pictures, of several styles of shibori. There's also a...
Cool, thanks Kiri! Miriel ... -- "There but for the grace of a demented deity, go I" - Tales of the Folly, by A. Fesler "I messed with the Captain of the...
Greetings all, First off I am new to the site and only been into the SCA for about a year. I have always been itrested in the Japanese culture and so have ...
Greetings Robert, Speaking as a herald (since there is no such thing as "used to be herald") the first point is that in the SCA all names have to be documented...
Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! ... The fundamental flaw that I possibly see with this article is the possibility of misidentifying "samurai" with...
Greetings to all, I am trying to make for my self a Hoeki no Ho and a Kanmuri crown.....but all the pictures i have come across fail to give detailes on the...
Greetings again, ok, so this has ben bugging me for a little while.......what would the Japanese name be for a bard.....at one time I was told that it was...
Congratulations on your accomplishment. :o) I was quite impressed by the calibre of performances in the Steppes competition! :o) Without a good dictionary at...
Thanks for all the info-- this is very interesting! I confess that I don't immediately think of Japan as a "bardic" society, possibly because when I think...
what do we think of Omidassu no Hanashite........and yes...Omidassu was given to me becouse they were recounnters of history and lineage........I have put...
I hate to say this, but that doesn't sound like a name. That sounds like saying "Hi, my name is 'I tell stories about remembering'". I may have missed it......
I concur with Ii-dono. The phrase "omoidasu no hanashite" definitely doesn't sounds like a name, but above and beyond that, it just doesn't sound like a...
Yagyu-dono, Okay, re-checking past messages, here's an idea for a job title for you: $BAp86$N8lIt(B Kusahara (or Kusahara-shu) no Kataribe Reciter of History...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! ... 1. You should first think about what sort of person you want to recereat and from what period. I assume that you want...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! ... Has your keyboard developed a stutter? The double s should be a single s. Dasu, means to put out, send out, &c. and...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! ... Do you aspire to be a blind biwa player? If so, then you might have had a pseudo monastic name or something like...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! Are you looking for a name or a Japanese word that describes what you do? Reading the postings in the order I did had me ...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! ... I doubt that this really works. If for no other reason that be did not belong to baronies or such like. ... ...
I attempted to reply to this earlier but it looks like it bounced or something... I found Taikomochi or Houkan. Basically a male geisha. Storyteller, joke...
"Taikomochi" sounds like the guy who beats on the rice with a sledge during New Years. (Which is my favorite part of preparing for New Years.) Just for fun,...
... Probably the closest analogous Japanese instrument (as opposed to a Japanese word for the Chinese instrument) is the kokyu. It resembles a small shamisen...
Greetings, First off I would like to thank you both for your replies. Second, I think Yahoo ate my original reply so here goes try number 2 The periods I'm...
Have you looked at the Miscellany at http://sengokudaimyo.com/ ? I'd suggest there and look up the information on names. In short, it is better to choose a...
