Still alternately yawning and reeling
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gurdymonkeyOf COURSE I somehow managed to forget to pack my linen under kosode - and it's quite obvious in the photos ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
layla_lilah shot of me yesterday. Argh. At least the barbarians I must sojourn amongst probably won't know the difference.
So there I was, swanning about in a cloud of green and orange cacophonous fabulousness, looking at A&S displays, chatting with friends and trying to keep my hems out from under the feet of said barbarians whenmediea came up and said she was supposed to bring me into court for a piece of business. Okay. So we went in and I lurked at the back of the hall through the royalty gift exchange and a couple other pieces of business.
My thanks to Wilhelm von Homburg for calling me as "Saionji no Hanae, also known as Jehanne de Wodeford" and pronouncing it correctly, as well as to Her Highness of the Mists, whom he tells me helped him with it.
I did have enough presence of mind not to attempt a proper face-plant at the foot of the stairs on a bad knee, so I opted for a deep, formal standing bow. However, reflex took over when I got to the dais and I was about ten inches from impact with the pillow when my left knee said quite vociferously, "Well THAT was dumb."
Evidently someone thinks I am not dumb. Make that a number of someones. I was informed by Their Majesties that they had gotten quite a number of recommendations on my behalf from all over, including one from the shiny new incipient Canton of the Golden Plains in Bangkok.
As you know, I'm not about the awards. However, I have to admit this one is gratifying. Japanese personae are a minority in the SCA and are particularly thin on the ground here in the West. I've taught classes to one attendee and deemed it a rousing success simply because someone showed up. I estimate that 7% of the teaching is outside the kingdom (Estrella, Great Western War, Collegium Caidis) and 3% is in kingdom. The other 90% is via the internet. So if you wrote a recommendation on my behalf, thank you. If you know someone who did, thank them for me.
Most of the day was spent socializing in brief spurts with various people. Around 4PM or so, I had to use the rest room, got a look at the state of my oshiroi and decided it was time to remove it. This was the first outing with the real abura and oshiroi thatcrimsongriffin had gotten for me. It works beautifully and provides even coverage, but after sweating in it for that many hours, the old lady lines around my eyes were crazing it badly. Neutrogena make-up remover wipes took it off easily, though I needed four or five just because of how much stuff I had on.
layla_lilah and I got dinner at the hotel restauraunt. Having not packed the book I wanted because I'd expected to be too tired for vittoriosa and allison_is ' period poetry (and prose) slam , I drove back home to collect it. Japanese poetry is short. REALLY short. Especially when other participants have already planned to read epic verse such as "The Battle of Maldon." I grabbed the Morris translation of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book as well as Carter's Traditional Japanese Poetry. Moshe read several wonderful Hebrew poems, Wulfric was picking things out of Castiglione and Juan Ruiz, Cariadoc had a variety of different poems and stories to offer. Etaine offered excerpts from Gawain and the Green Knight. vittoriosa read from Ariosto and the Decameron and allison_is supplemented her Old English repertoire with excerpts from the Frauenzimmer (?) manuscript, so it was a good mix of material. A good time was had by all and we definitely have to do this again.
Crap. I completely forgot to shake down Staffan for my Firefly DVDs....
layla_lilah shot of me yesterday. Argh. At least the barbarians I must sojourn amongst probably won't know the difference. So there I was, swanning about in a cloud of green and orange cacophonous fabulousness, looking at A&S displays, chatting with friends and trying to keep my hems out from under the feet of said barbarians when
mediea came up and said she was supposed to bring me into court for a piece of business. Okay. So we went in and I lurked at the back of the hall through the royalty gift exchange and a couple other pieces of business.My thanks to Wilhelm von Homburg for calling me as "Saionji no Hanae, also known as Jehanne de Wodeford" and pronouncing it correctly, as well as to Her Highness of the Mists, whom he tells me helped him with it.
I did have enough presence of mind not to attempt a proper face-plant at the foot of the stairs on a bad knee, so I opted for a deep, formal standing bow. However, reflex took over when I got to the dais and I was about ten inches from impact with the pillow when my left knee said quite vociferously, "Well THAT was dumb."
Evidently someone thinks I am not dumb. Make that a number of someones. I was informed by Their Majesties that they had gotten quite a number of recommendations on my behalf from all over, including one from the shiny new incipient Canton of the Golden Plains in Bangkok.
As you know, I'm not about the awards. However, I have to admit this one is gratifying. Japanese personae are a minority in the SCA and are particularly thin on the ground here in the West. I've taught classes to one attendee and deemed it a rousing success simply because someone showed up. I estimate that 7% of the teaching is outside the kingdom (Estrella, Great Western War, Collegium Caidis) and 3% is in kingdom. The other 90% is via the internet. So if you wrote a recommendation on my behalf, thank you. If you know someone who did, thank them for me.
Most of the day was spent socializing in brief spurts with various people. Around 4PM or so, I had to use the rest room, got a look at the state of my oshiroi and decided it was time to remove it. This was the first outing with the real abura and oshiroi that
crimsongriffin had gotten for me. It works beautifully and provides even coverage, but after sweating in it for that many hours, the old lady lines around my eyes were crazing it badly. Neutrogena make-up remover wipes took it off easily, though I needed four or five just because of how much stuff I had on. layla_lilah and I got dinner at the hotel restauraunt. Having not packed the book I wanted because I'd expected to be too tired for vittoriosa and allison_is ' period poetry (and prose) slam , I drove back home to collect it. Japanese poetry is short. REALLY short. Especially when other participants have already planned to read epic verse such as "The Battle of Maldon." I grabbed the Morris translation of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book as well as Carter's Traditional Japanese Poetry. Moshe read several wonderful Hebrew poems, Wulfric was picking things out of Castiglione and Juan Ruiz, Cariadoc had a variety of different poems and stories to offer. Etaine offered excerpts from Gawain and the Green Knight. vittoriosa read from Ariosto and the Decameron and allison_is supplemented her Old English repertoire with excerpts from the Frauenzimmer (?) manuscript, so it was a good mix of material. A good time was had by all and we definitely have to do this again.Crap. I completely forgot to shake down Staffan for my Firefly DVDs....
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Date: 2010-01-10 09:47 pm (UTC)I'm holding out hope that they'll finally give up on the "no Japanese Laurels" thing out there.
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Date: 2010-01-10 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 01:16 am (UTC)When I was in the West, it was explained to me that, with a Rose Leaf, I'd gone as far as I could doing Japanese things -- "we already have a Japanese Laurel," I was told. And this was by someone who was helping me. ;)
It was pointless to point out, of course, that there was more than one calligraphy Laurel, and more than one dance Laurel, and... You get the idea. The West was not very Japanofriendly.
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Date: 2010-01-11 06:02 am (UTC)I cannot presume to comment on what goes on in the minds of the Laurel council of my kingdom. I'm not privy to what they think or do or whether I'm even on the microscope slide, and I'm fine with that. I do what I do because it's rewarding in its own right, or at least amusing.