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deralte

Japan update

Feb 23, 2016 16:57

I have pretty much been sick for the past three weeks - ever since I left Tokyo. I wavered between 'just sniffly' and' coughing up my lungs' until I finally gave up and started taking some antibiotics I had. I'm still sniffly but I feel like I finally have my energy back and have been getting things done. The problem with trying to get better here ( Read more... )

nara and kyoto, japan

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reynardine February 23 2016, 11:49:56 UTC

Can I run a question by you? I'm trying to find out what sewing implements (needles, pins, etc) were available during the Nara or Heian eras. I'm not sure where to start looking for that--could you point me towards any sources?

deralte February 23 2016, 13:01:06 UTC

Hmm. This isn't something archaeologists in Japan focus on much, but I can tell you that by the Nara period they had copper, iron, bronze and lacquer readily available and Japan was known for it's textiles even before the Nara period. So while metal was available for making sewing needles, my guess would probably be that they used bamboo and bone ( ... )

reynardine February 24 2016, 14:07:00 UTC

It does, thank you! Most of the books I have found only concentrate on the textiles and decoration, and not much on how the garments were put together.

gramarye1971 February 25 2016, 01:59:35 UTC

Natsume statues! I've finally managed to watch the first three seasons -- I'm in the middle of season 4 now, and am seriously thinking of picking up the manga. (I think one of the local libraries might have the English translation, but I'd have to check.) It's such a good series.

deralte February 25 2016, 03:03:27 UTC

It is a great series. The anime is lovely and I love the manga as well. It's so sad at times but also hopeful. Also, one of the few mangas that acknowledges how the adoption system is in Japan.

They made two sets of quality statues for it a few years ago which I have been slowly collecting. Look at how pretty this is? http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?oldscode=157511 Not that I can afford that one, but the cheaper ones go for $20-40. It's still popular enough here that they're still releasing capsule collections which mostly seem to focus on Sensei for some reason.

There's a couple of quality fanfics out there on A03 and even ff.net as well once you run out of canon. I've recced most of them - http://ficrecs.livejournal.com/tag/natsume%20yuujinchou. And written one of my own after plowing through the manga:)