I always KNEW the Bushi From The Outlands was a sneaky bastard. There I was, minding my own business, watching the kyudo demonstration, when he  caught me with my hair reacting to the humidity and my collar all awry...   At right, Jaap Koppedrayer, AKA "Yumi," at full draw.

At least I saw him coming this time:


More of Otagiri Tatsuzou's Pennsic pics at http://rhinohide.cx/albums/Pennsic36/

ENTRY EDITED as I remember things to add to the chronology.

Photos are up HERE     I regret I did not take more - but then I would've had to enjoy more of my war through a viewfinder.

My last Pennsic was eight years ago, when I still lived in the East. This was my first Pennsic doing Japanese, though my friend and bodyguard, Fujimaki did invite me to several of Yumi's kyudo demonstrations and one of Effingham-sensei's class at P-28, so that's sort of where the infection began. I pretty much alternated days between "Jehanne" and "Saionji" for the duration.

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