You are too kind. I confess that my earliest influences in pursuing a Japanese persona were people who came to the SCA from re-enactment backgrounds which required a high degree of accuracy.
Fujimaki Tosaburou Hidetora started his SCA career doing a Welsh persona and it just wasn't working for him. Right around the time he squired to the knight I was then dating, he decided he wanted to do Japanese. As his lady's knight, I felt it incumbent upon me to be supportive and learn enough to hold up my end of the conversation. Part of that involved a bit of bonding at Pennsic 28. Part of it involved pointing him at Fujiwara no Aoi (kass_rants) in the hopes they could network and brainstorm. I only knew her slightly at the time. They chattered at each other for about four minutes, then turned to me and said: "And you're coming too, right, Jehanne?" Which is how I ended up making kosode, nagabakama and uwagi for a local themed event in the East, and got to know Kass and her husband Bob.
I should also mention some of our Tousando brothers. Date Saburou Yukiie and Ii Saburuou Katsumori, for playing poetry games with me. Otagiri Tatsuzou for his mad stuff-makin' skilz and his gallant hospitality when we first met at Estrella a couple of years back. Effingham, for his irritating habit of posting something like, "That fan's wrong," and refusing to reappear for months while my brain itches unmercifully and I go figure out how to research why the fan was wrong.
Part of the nitpickery also comes from the fact that there are so few people doing Japanese in my kingdom, and a fair number willing to be vocally negative about anyone doing it at all. The West can be downright hidebound about certain things, so I use that "guest in a European court" loophole for all it's worth. I am an emissary of The Exalted One, The Son of the Sun. I don't show up unless I am dressed as his representative, I don't lounge in a nylon chair like I'm watching TV when I am at court, I bow polite greetings to all and make obeisance to the hairy Vikings on the throne, or are they Persians this reign?
Your game is your game. My game is my game. What one gets out of the game is what one puts in. If you're having fun doing what you're doing that's great. If you're learning stuff along the way, that's great too.
I love a man who can giggle....
You are too kind. I confess that my earliest influences in pursuing a Japanese persona were people who came to the SCA from re-enactment backgrounds which required a high degree of accuracy.
Fujimaki Tosaburou Hidetora started his SCA career doing a Welsh persona and it just wasn't working for him. Right around the time he squired to the knight I was then dating, he decided he wanted to do Japanese. As his lady's knight, I felt it incumbent upon me to be supportive and learn enough to hold up my end of the conversation. Part of that involved a bit of bonding at Pennsic 28. Part of it involved pointing him at Fujiwara no Aoi (kass_rants) in the hopes they could network and brainstorm. I only knew her slightly at the time. They chattered at each other for about four minutes, then turned to me and said: "And you're coming too, right, Jehanne?" Which is how I ended up making kosode, nagabakama and uwagi for a local themed event in the East, and got to know Kass and her husband Bob.
I should also mention some of our Tousando brothers. Date Saburou Yukiie and Ii Saburuou Katsumori, for playing poetry games with me. Otagiri Tatsuzou for his mad stuff-makin' skilz and his gallant hospitality when we first met at Estrella a couple of years back. Effingham, for his irritating habit of posting something like, "That fan's wrong," and refusing to reappear for months while my brain itches unmercifully and I go figure out how to research why the fan was wrong.
Part of the nitpickery also comes from the fact that there are so few people doing Japanese in my kingdom, and a fair number willing to be vocally negative about anyone doing it at all. The West can be downright hidebound about certain things, so I use that "guest in a European court" loophole for all it's worth. I am an emissary of The Exalted One, The Son of the Sun. I don't show up unless I am dressed as his representative, I don't lounge in a nylon chair like I'm watching TV when I am at court, I bow polite greetings to all and make obeisance to the hairy Vikings on the throne, or are they Persians this reign?
Your game is your game. My game is my game. What one gets out of the game is what one puts in. If you're having fun doing what you're doing that's great. If you're learning stuff along the way, that's great too.