Tatsushu is my hero!

[gurdymonkey]

  For reminding me he sent me this a couple weeks ago! Left-hand page, bottom row.

Text translation: "[A chochin is] a type of carried lantern where paper is spread across a basketwork lantern, and a candle[? kanji unclear] is put in.  The word "Chochin" comes from the Song dynasty, and it spread in the Muromachi period through Zen institutions.  At first, they couldn't be folded up, but "box" chochin (hako-chochin) with the accordion style mid-section that could be folded was born in the Bunroku period
(1592-1596) and this style flourished in the Edo period."

Title and author as yet unknown, however the book was described as a "jiten" or encyclopedia of artifacts at the Kasuga shrine.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

If I were a smart ass I'd point out that the kanji for LED is almost identical to the one for candle and that you couldn't be sure. Plus, they'd have done it if they'd thought of it.

Which is probably where I'd get smacked with a fan.

(***People should note that I have NO idea what the kanji for ANYTHING looks like and should not use me as a source.)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Talk about a narrow niche!

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

There's a kanji for something that is the same kanji for "demagnetization," because Google Translate will default to it on some of the web pages I've run through it. Unfortunately, I cannot remember what the word it's SUPPOSED to be is.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, he's traveling, so I can't get a book title until he returns. Screw it - I'm sticking it in the back of the folder with a "This just in!" note.

The "Jiten"...

[tatsushu.livejournal.com]

The "Jiten" is actually not the Itsukushima book... it is an encyclopedia of "historical" items (varying in all sorts of degrees--mostly Edo, but often with information on the pre-Edo origins, too. I'll get you everything when I'm back home :)

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

ooh, I see on the right hand page, a notation of horses in colors other than brown! That could be useful for my side work...if you get a title and author, please post? I would like permission to save this picture for my own resources.

(side work is on Equestrian stuff, haven't narrowed it down beyond working on equippage and would like to do something on breeds)

Re: The "Jiten"...

[tatsushu.livejournal.com]

Blech. I meant it isn't the Kasuga book. Sorry, looking through multiple catalogs. Either way, I'll get you that info as soon as I can...

Book info

[tatsushu.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's the information:

ISBN 4-582-12420-8
「日本史モノ事典」
平凡社

[u]Nihonshi mono jiten[/u] (or "kototen")
Heibonsha (publisher), (c) 2001
Printed in Tokyo.

Basically it is an encyclopedia of "things in Japanese history." Mostly Edo, as I said.

I'm not sure about the horses, but I'll check. What, exactly, are you looking for?

Re: Book info

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

Oh, at this point, dear sir, anything they mention about horses and the accompanying gear would be worth it. I need to wrestle some time away from the stones and onto other projects, I really, really do.

Thank you.

*bows low*

Miriel