... Now ... is ... mid 8th ... I'll reasearch some more...i'm kinda stopping for a while till i have enough money to continue persueing this particular...
... is. I do understand and much appreciate your help. However, although I may only have a bachelor's degree, and may not have extensive published research, I...
I really like this name, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what it means! I found it in Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki--a great read...
Konnichiwa good gentles of this list. I am going to be hosting a Novice Tourney at this year's Lilies in June and I am wanting to give a little speech...
Greetings to all on the list, Would any of you fine gentles have any refs, dwgs, plans, floor-plans etc to the Maruoka-jo in Fukui prefecture? I have only one...
... A quick search with "google" led to these sites. Apparently the castle was rebuilt in 1951 as a historical/tourist site. This site has tourist info with a...
... Lord Stephan le fiz Ricard, Domo arigato...it is indeed useful...I searched other places, but not google...If you stop by our encampment at Pennsic, I will...
... jingasa? ... 3142.jpg ... have ... I guess you could find an iron wok and use that. If it has one handle, you probably want to remove that first. If it...
Greetings, I'm researching Japanese seals with the intent of making one for myself to "sign" Baronial scrolls. Does anyone know where I can find information...
Regrettably, no. You may want to research the seals--find the characters that you want (or even characters with the elements you want), and look to see how...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! Seals are interesting. Some old seals produce impressions exhibiting mirror writing. Seals in general are eith deko or...
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I do know that it's much older than Kanji and is still used nowadays exclusively for seals. One site implied that it was just kanji characters that were...
... Well, they are kanji (Chinese characters) so it can't really be 'older than Kanji'--but I do believe they often use older versions. Actually, you will...
Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! As I recall, kaisho and not tensho predominates for use in seals. This applies to seals dating from the sixteenth...
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... The difference, I believe, is between 'inkan' and 'tenkoku' (which, now that I look at it, makes sense! I had been thinking 'heaven' and wondering='What...
... You're right of course; that's what I meant to say. I'm a bit brainless while I'm on these cold medications... ... I'd planned on using the "positive"...
Now I'm really confused. It sounds like I should just keep signing my name on the scrolls rather than using a seal because that's more correct for us. Am I...
... I would like to see sources on what the kao (signature) vs. tenkoku (seal) were used for. It sounds like an inkan is a stamp of your name--it's like ...
I would like to make a pair of kyahan (leg wraps or puttees) for myself, as they would be great for keeping my legs warm under my hakamas. However, there is...
... Well, one way of doing this is to take your fabric, wrap it around your legs, and have someone mark where the two come together. That will help to get...
Hi, I have been reading the past messages on the subject. If some of this has been covered before I am sorry. "Koa, also called Shohan (written seal) or...
Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! Three more Japanese words are hanko which is generic and jitsuin or "true seal" and motome (if I remember that word...
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Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! The traditional seal carving tool is a ctually a small chisel and not a knife. You can buy the things at calligraphy...
Solveig
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Greetings to all from Yama Kaminari no Date Saburou Yukiie, Those of us who make Japanese style armor are familiar with four little rivit combos called "shi...
... True, but in English anybody who I've met calls it a knive and you don't push it like a chisel. I recommend buying a 1/4" or 3/16" bits of high speed steel...
