Silk and Steam: Far East Steampunk

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Comment by SteampunkSiren on March 31, 2013 at 11:16pm

Comment by teawithablackdragon on July 8, 2012 at 2:35pm

More Meiji Period Artist

Comment by teawithablackdragon on April 21, 2012 at 8:12am

Chikanobu a Japanese Meiji artist

Comment by teawithablackdragon on August 21, 2011 at 12:31pm

Costume ideas  here is great place to look for some ideas.  there are number of steampunk ninja so I am sure you can come up with something.  clockwork hellboy sounds interesting

Comment by Unthalit Thammavongsa on August 20, 2011 at 9:27pm

Thanks Lori, normally I have a fairly creative mind. But when trying to come up with an idea of an asian steam punk outfit I'm drawing a blank. I'm trying to come up with a design based on Thailand or Laos but have came up with nothing. Then I thought about a steampunk Ninja and came up with an idea like the clockwork guy from Hell Boy.

Comment by Yoko not Ono on August 20, 2011 at 8:26am

One of the most helpful things I have learned is that Steampunk is more of a filter than a genre. Anything can be punked.

Comment by Unthalit Thammavongsa on August 20, 2011 at 6:53am

Hello all, I'm a bit new to steam punk. I haven't really seen to much of an asian twist to the steam punk genera and I came across this group. Hopefully this group will give me some ideas on how to go about an asian steam punk outfit.

Comment by Prince of the North on June 6, 2011 at 10:07am

Does anyone want to discuss kimono?

A week ago at a convention (Wiscon) in Madison Wi, I shopped at Ragstock and picked up a narrow silver/orange striped obi ($4) and a men's silver-grey silk kimono, fully lined (sale $5 !). My intent was to re-use the fabric.  I've heard that normally kimono are aired out between wearings and disassembled for a rare full cleaning.   In taking it apart, I found that it was all hand-stiched and had almost no cutting lines.  The angles are folded under the lining.  Main sections are full width of the woven fabric (which is why there is a straight back seam).

Comment by Miss Cherries Jubilee on March 7, 2011 at 3:00am

Ah the SCA...speaking as a member in good standing of SCA Anonymous....hi my name is Shirikuma nakamura no kami yagiu....or was it Lady Marion of Scarborough...oh my mundane name ?....I had one of those once...I fear I have misplaced it.

 

I was a member of a Japanese household in Colorado in which we camped, ate and dressed in 15 cen Japanese, right down to separate tables and food at feast  where the women ate in private.  You wouldn't beleive the flack we took, but it was so interesting to merge into a clan system where everyone knew their role.

 

In my story (beginning in 1855) my airship captain, who is female, must recruit and train a crew of women.  No men would take orders from her even though she is a princess of the Fujiwara clan.  Thank you Mr. Turnbull.  Getting around the social taboos and avoiding being married off to some prince while battling the evil British Empire makes for a very interesting story line.

 

Comment by Dr. Antonio Boschettofata, PhÆD on March 6, 2011 at 10:05pm

"...and Japanese social mores, so very different from the west..."

==+++>> O.M.G!  =YES!=  I used to teach classes at the (local) SCA kingdom "university" on various topics, mostly Japanese.  One of them was on "Japanese Etiquette", which, of course, included "social mores".  A 'companion' class was on "Bushido: what it is and what it isn't".  I had people from all over the 'temporal-location spectrum' take the classes, including a few "heavy" fighters.

 

As a 'general statement', students could understand limits and influencing factors caused by isolation -- Japan is a series of islands a reasonably long way from a 'mainland' of any sort.  They could understand influences of high population density [Paris or London would have only been a mid~large town, =not= a "city"], of =totally= different religious ideas [Abraham? Who's he? Sin? What's that & what's it got to do with anything important?], of 'wet' grain farming [yes, a =BIG= difference between "wet" & "dry" grain farming!], etc, etc.

 ..  =BUT=  ..

The very idea of Rights::Responsibilities, of Privilege::Duty, of "Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Death as light as a feather" .. seemed to be so hard to come to grips with, that people would come up to me months later to ask me questions about it, still trying to figure it out!!

 

One of the biggest 'stumbling blocks' seemed to be the idea that a person (yes, almost always a guy) could be "hard-a** & bad-to-the-bone" and three times as macho .. and 99.9%+ of the time, it wouldn't mean squat!  Did you have any 'culture', any 'style', any 'gentle-ness', any 'strong yet calm spirit' -- =those= were important!

 

Hmmm, I'm starting to ramble and shift into 'lecture' mode .. so I think I'll shut up, now.  {big grin}

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