Konichiwa, I have thought about naming my house (physical, not an SCA group) for a long time now and am thinking of using "Cricket House" or "House of the ...
Katai na Itoko! If there are any heralds here, I humbly ask your assistance in blazoning my mon so I don't spend forever getting it accepted. Please e-mail...
while looking over my notes from all the Pennsic garb classes, I noticed that I had written that women's hakama were different from men's, however I did not...
Forgive the e-mail, but Yahoo!Groups hasn't been letting me use my new e-mail address (modzer0.gi.alaska.edu--still receives at modzer0.cs.uaf.edu) since the...
On the Kyoto Musuem Japanese page there are two pictures I have a question about. I'm not able to email the direct link to the pictures in question, so I'm...
Katai na Itoko! Does anyone have any information on fine Period dining that is either easy to transport or easy to make in camp. I make a fairly decent sushi,...
How did they pad outfits for winter in period? Is it anything like modern sashiko? What's an appropriate modern substitute? It's already getting cold enough...
Kon-nichiwa!!! I just wanted to say hi to everyone and say how existed I am to find this mailing list. I'm very interested in being part of SCA (Ansteorra,...
Well, this is try two for a kamon design. It came to me last night in a dream. (No really - and no, not _that_ kind of dream.) http://tinyurl.com/o9uu The url...
Greetings! This is interesting. When I presented my name and device to my local herald, he said that some members of the CoA, as well as many "lay heralds" are...
First of thanks to all those people who responded to my previous query about Sumo at SCA events. While this is only partially relavent to this list, I thought...
Greetings all! Ok. Thank you all so much for your input on my proposed device. I may have jumped the gun a bit, however. I still haven't gotten my name...
Many grateful thanks to those who pointed out that particular heraldry error-- I seem to be suffering a rather extensive brain-failure these days! Anyway, I...
Greetings all-- I've been lurking about on the list for a while and just saw this. I am not at all sure about the technical heraldic term for a seven-pointed...
OK. Someone talk to me. What's the word on the star of three points (typically, I've seen one, two, and six, so far)swirled (for lack of a better word.)either...
... However, even if the CoA recognizes a crossed sickle vs. crossed axes as a point of difference (and I think they do), you may still have a conflict. I know...
Ok, I have re-uploaded my new design as a jpg, so everyone should be able to open it now. It is two axes saltire with 5 cinqforms around it. Listed as...
Konnichi wa tomodachi, I was wondering if any of you fine folk have reference to the number of arrows that an armor clad samurai might have carried in his...
Konichiwa! I am hoping someone on this list could answer my query, or direct me to a book or web resource that would be assistance. I was wondering what kind...
I was wondering why the martial arts which make use of hakama use primarily black hakama? Also they will sometimes use a dark blue, or shihans/doshu/higher ups...
A member of my barony sent me the following info on a New York store that apparently has Japanese print cotton. While I realize that cotton is usually all we...
