Having just finished reading about Tanegashima....

[gurdymonkey]

....here's a little something you're not likely to see on Immortal Geisha.

The overhead shots of the volley fire are particularly sweet.

Threw a quickie book review up over on the Tousando.

Comments

[sengokudaimyo.livejournal.com]

I never cease to be amazed at the Japanese penchant for ceremonializing the most ludicrous things.

The guy in the formal kamishimo had me giggling.

His sengoku ancestors would have been alternately appalled and in stitches.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the kamishimo was special.

I'm also not so sure about the brilliance of tying one's match cord around one's wrist. That just sounds like an accident waiting to happen.

[sengokudaimyo.livejournal.com]

Actually, that would not have been all that uncommon. But, yeah. Thank goodness for natural fabrics. ;)

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

The ceremony that the one man went through. That made the already slow process so slow he would be killed in battle.
Still it is interesting to see.