Recreational research into Feudal Japan
Kihō
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Of Pale Yellows and Blues
August 15, 2016 - 10:41 pm
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I was recently looking at Ohatamoto Sōshirushizu when I noticed something interesting. The colors are helpfully labeled, which is useful to determine what distinctions between colors were being drawn and if any ink colors have changed over time. For example, yellow (黄, “ki”) is here distinguished from gold (金, “kin”), unlike in European heraldry. But […]
Comparing O-umajirushi (2/?)
July 4, 2016 - 1:24 pm
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Continuing my comparison between the National Diet Library and Library of Congress copies of O-umajirushi. Here it’s interesting to note that both copies have have different styles of the character yama (山) on the horo from the banners, and that the styles match. Whether this shows significance of the style difference or is just a […]
Exciting Sources: Daibukan and Kamakura Bukan
July 1, 2016 - 1:54 am
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The Daibukan, or Great Book of Heraldry, is a gigantic secondary source on Japanese heraldry from the 1930s. I’ve gotten to look at it before, but it wasn’t until recently that I learned that a scanned copy is available from the NDL online. The right half of page 55 (as the online version numbers things) […]
Resource: the Rijksmuseum
June 30, 2016 - 5:00 pm
Tags: Azuchi-Momoyama period, Edo period, fabric, helmets
Posted in Mon, Crafts | 2 comments
I recently discovered that the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum, has their collection searchable online with freely-usable images. They’ve got some cool stuff. Here are some highlights, focused on Japanese heraldry. <img src="http://fireflies.xavid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-30-at-13.48 traitement viagra naturel.50-300×114.png” alt=”Screen Shot 2016-06-30 at 13.48.50″ width=”300″ height=”114″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-594″ srcset=”http://fireflies.xavid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-30-at-13.48.50-300×114.png 300w, http://fireflies.xavid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-30-at-13.48.50-768×293.png 768w, http://fireflies.xavid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-30-at-13.48.50-1024×390.png 1024w, http://fireflies.xavid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-30-at-13.48.50.png 1506w” sizes=”(max-width: […]
Comparing O-umajirushi (1/?)
So, when I went to the Library of Congress last fall, I got to see physical copies of volumes 5 and 6 of O-umajirushi in person, which was very exciting. What was interesting, though, is that these copies had some differences from the copies from the National Diet Library which I used for my book. […]
New Resource: Ohatamoto Sōshirushizu
November 8, 2015 - 11:03 pm
Tags: Edo period
Posted in Mon | 1 comment
I was recently visiting DC, and while there I decided to stop by the Library of Congress, because they had an actual copy of O-umajirushi that I could actually look at in person (quite exciting; more on that another time). While I was looking at their catalog ahead of time, I noticed it was under […]
Kickstarter Post Linkdump
November 6, 2015 - 11:22 pm
Tags: O-umajirushi, kanji, kuzushiji
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So, it’s been a year since my Kickstarter funded, and it’s been wrapped up for a bit. I’ve got some new stuff to talk about here, but first, for the record, I wanted to link to some of my Kickstarter posts that might be generally interesting. Introduction to Japanese Crests, the handout for the Japanese […]
