Kon'nichi wa! This morning I happened to awake early and was searching for something to watch on tv, and found this... it was on JAPANESE TV ( a channel here...
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Bruce Mills
millsbn@...
Oct 10, 1999 1:50 pm
... Sounds like a serialized version of the 47 Ronin, "Tales from the Genroku Era". I forget how many episodes there are, but if it is the one that I'm ...
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BattleWear
battlewear@...
Oct 10, 1999 2:31 pm
The show just finished 10 min ago, and when it ended it showed what looked like clips from the next show. It looks like a really good show, now I only wish I...
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Bruce Mills
millsbn@...
Oct 10, 1999 3:33 pm
... Well, since the Genroku Era is around 1688, it is post-SCA-period, but there weren't many changes in styles, in men's fashions anyway. It is rather hard...
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Ron Martino
yumitori@...
Oct 10, 1999 3:57 pm
... If the show is set during the Genroku era (1688-1703), then it is outside the SCA period, during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns. Yumitori...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:08 pm
... I'm not sure what the show is, but if it's Genroku, it's the Genroku era, which is NOT medieval Japan. It's early modern, 1688-1704. It's kind of...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:08 pm
... No, it's not period. The costume particularly is VERY markedly post period. The Genroku era began in 1688. You're better off using Shogun, Kagemusha, and...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:09 pm
... Akimoya-dono, how could you say such a thing? <G> The nagabakama the men wear at court (the LOOOOONG hakama) are post period, as are the folded, starched...
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Bruce Mills
millsbn@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:12 pm
... Well, wouldn't you say 1620 is "right post period", in the larger scheme of things? I didn't say 1601 on the dot. It might even be considered *in* period,...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:55 pm
... "some" doesn't matter. Corpora says "make an attempt at pre seventeenth-century costume." Deliberately recreating something that didn't even appear until...
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Bruce Mills
millsbn@...
Oct 10, 1999 4:59 pm
... I never said I *agreed* with those "some"... ... Yes, certainly. I never said that we should recreate non-period things. I was just saying that while the...
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J. Kriss White
jkrissw@...
Oct 10, 1999 5:02 pm
At 10/10/99 12:15 PM -0400, Akimoya calligraphed: Well, wouldn't you say 1620 is "right post period", in the larger scheme of things? I didn't say 1601 on the...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 10, 1999 9:38 pm
... Hokey dokey! ... Hai, hai!! Effingham...
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Markejag@...
Oct 14, 1999 3:46 pm
Sorry so late with the replies, but I do recall a BOD statement that the ending period for the SCA was 1600 with special dispensation until 1650 to allow for...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 14, 1999 4:23 pm
... You are mis-remembering. The 50-year "grace period" was a good idea gone awry created by then Laurel King of Arms Wilhelm von Schlussel to allow the use in...
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Holly Turner
hturner2@...
Oct 17, 1999 2:44 am
I am interested in developing an Asian persona and would be greatful for any information you can send me in that regard. Thanks hturner2@......
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fsjlb4
fsjlb4@...
Oct 17, 1999 12:29 pm
... By Asian, what exactly are you looking for? There are the Mongols, from the steppes; the various peoples of China, of which I personally know less than ...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 17, 1999 7:02 pm
... Are you the fella I sent that long list of Must-See museums to a few months ago? You HAVE to get to Nakamura Koen and visit the Hideyoshi/Kato Kiyomasa...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 18, 1999 7:06 pm
Hi, everyone; I've been upgrading my computer to allow me to work with Chinese and Japanese online, and upgrading my internet software. Somehow, in the process...
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nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 1:40 am
Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! Alas! Crane-Valley just does not sound all that likely to me. Tsuru has been used in forming feminine given names. eg....
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nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 1:44 am
Noble Cousin! Consider buying just about any waei/eiwa-jiten published by Kenkyusha. Your Humble Servant Solveig Throndardottir AmateurScholar...
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nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 1:52 am
Noble Cousins! I have some matterial about tents as well including evidence concerning where and for what they were used. The CA editor will not publish any of...
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nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 1:56 am
Noble Cousins! There was a long standing dispute over whether SCA period should end at 1600 or 1650. Quite a few members still contend that the cut off should...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 22, 1999 2:15 am
... Well, given such examples as the surnames Tsurugaoka, Tsuruzaki, Tsuruhara, Tsuruta, and Tsurumine (all using geographical features + tsuru), I don't see...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 22, 1999 2:19 am
... Regardless, the SCA cutoff is 1600. Period. (so to speak. <g>) The only "extra" allowed was a misguided Laurel ruling years ago to allow anything first ...
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Barbara Nostrand
nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 2:29 am
Baron Edward! You are looking at Japanese place names. While a lot of Japanese family names are toponymic, this does not mean that all Japanese place names are...
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Barbara Nostrand
nostrand@...
Oct 22, 1999 2:35 am
Baron Edward! Greetings from Solveig! Sorry, but the A&S community now generally accepts post 1600 sources. A good example of this in dance is a book by Caesar...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 22, 1999 4:35 pm
... No, these are surnames. I specifically omitted placenames from the list. ... That is possible, but in cases like Ashikaga, it's marked as S,P (surname, ...
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Anthony J. Bryant
ajbryant@...
Oct 22, 1999 4:38 pm
... That's what I'm talking about. This is the only acceptable use of post-period material. The trouble is when people start wanting to do post period things...
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darkstarcrashes@...
Oct 22, 1999 4:58 pm
greetings everyone. my name is carl, i've just subscribed to the list. i'm not new to the sca, but i've been out for a few years. i've decided to try to get ...
