Thoughts before lunch
Mar. 5th, 2009 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkey1. January 24, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as President of the United States.
March 5, 2009, there is $10 more in my paycheck this week than in any previous paycheck for the year 2009.
That's what I call fast work.
2. There have been a number of "Ooh, shiny!" responses to my post of yesterday regarding the kaga chochin project. There has not been a single, "Did the Japanese use that particular weaving pattern in their basketry and would it have been used for a kaga chochin?" question.
Honestly? Before God and all the neighbors? I couldn't tell you. I do know that the basic hexagonal basket weave mimicked by the other cane I intended to use is one of the weaves used for baskets in a number of cultures, Japan included. The star variant I'd never seen before and I let my own "Ooh, shiny!" impulse allow me to buy $12 worth of it.
Before God and all the neighbors, this is going have to be one of those "plausibly period" projects. I have yet to find extant kaga-chochin because they probably didn't survive. I have yet to find iconographic support because I haven't found (or at least do not recall seeing) any night time scenes in any of the narrative picture scrolls from pre-1600 with paper or basket-lanterns in them. All I have is the oft-repeated blurb that paper lanterns evolved from the practice of using baskets as lanterns.
EDIT (added well after lunch): If you remember the PingMag article I posted the link to, it includes a photo of a kaga-chochin, consisting of a tall openwork basket with some paper glued to one side of it. I have absolutely no way of knowing how old it is or whether it's at all historically authentic.
It's not implausible. The design idea I have in mind, assuming I can pull it all together and make it work, will at least be a functional, attractive and non-modern camp accessory.
March 5, 2009, there is $10 more in my paycheck this week than in any previous paycheck for the year 2009.
That's what I call fast work.
2. There have been a number of "Ooh, shiny!" responses to my post of yesterday regarding the kaga chochin project. There has not been a single, "Did the Japanese use that particular weaving pattern in their basketry and would it have been used for a kaga chochin?" question.
Honestly? Before God and all the neighbors? I couldn't tell you. I do know that the basic hexagonal basket weave mimicked by the other cane I intended to use is one of the weaves used for baskets in a number of cultures, Japan included. The star variant I'd never seen before and I let my own "Ooh, shiny!" impulse allow me to buy $12 worth of it.
Before God and all the neighbors, this is going have to be one of those "plausibly period" projects. I have yet to find extant kaga-chochin because they probably didn't survive. I have yet to find iconographic support because I haven't found (or at least do not recall seeing) any night time scenes in any of the narrative picture scrolls from pre-1600 with paper or basket-lanterns in them. All I have is the oft-repeated blurb that paper lanterns evolved from the practice of using baskets as lanterns.
EDIT (added well after lunch): If you remember the PingMag article I posted the link to, it includes a photo of a kaga-chochin, consisting of a tall openwork basket with some paper glued to one side of it. I have absolutely no way of knowing how old it is or whether it's at all historically authentic.
It's not implausible. The design idea I have in mind, assuming I can pull it all together and make it work, will at least be a functional, attractive and non-modern camp accessory.
