[Toraerie] lets try this again then. meeting notes!

[Sake Megami]

Greetings all,

attatched are the meeting notes from this evening as well as my 
brainstorming for activities and other things for our event.

the website everyone should check out is 
www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/miscellany.html for various topics, writ by 
a player in the sca, baron edward of effingham of the middle.

is,

gudrun


Lune.2201.2007
Tor aerie meeting, first of semester

- grant info to Rachel and Eyja ME
- grant due march first, so have to have everything done, including budget
- eyja poke at jen for Beowulf grant stuff
- ramon – site!!!

- beth found a scroll, it was boring, in reasonable jpn format for an invite 
thing
- beth teach sumi-e class? Teach someone to teach? Use as decorations?
- Beth talk to padrigue about period games

- sakura made of tissue paper
- gudrun email notes, brainstorming, and www.sengokudaimyo.com - mandatory 
reading!!!

- lea found some stuff on tea ceremony, may teach class if she gets into it 
enough

- gudrun – write bungo invites with eyja and beth

- next week sewing at Coffman, bring machines and stuff

- eyja says “A&S day, hanami themed”
o bardic competition – poetry
o classes
- calligraphy class? Or
o gudrun teach? Taught by beth…
o name station

schedule for event
- site open at 9-9:30
- classes beginning at ten
- lunch?
o Masses fend for themselves? – what’s in the area…
o Another group provide? – like youth boffer did for beowulf
o We provide?
- Feast
o Crowns? – court? Queen at dance seminar… others’ll be with us?
o Rice, soup…
- Populace space with games and demonstrations, separated by cloth
o Tea ceremony
o Games – go, shougi, matching shells
o Decorations

- ramon hand over site info? Or continue? Like by the next week or two
- once we get site, we can finalize a lot of things…

- flyer in publication – two months in advance

- eyja and gudrun present invite at baronial folk moot in march or april

- gudrun and beth make invites

- eyja as moas
- jan 29th - next week sewing jpn garb
- feb 5th - week after that – Viking age
- feb 12th - then no classroom – start making invites
   - have Japanese done by then!!!
   - Start inking…


Tor Aerie event research and brainstorming (gudrun's only)

- archery competition?
o ppl can shoot however they like
o history or style of jpn archery
o does anyone do period jpn archery?
- Decorations
o Lanterns
o Fake sakura – sorta ruins the feeling of impermenancy
o Bonsai
o Screens
o Scrolls
o Tatami
o Five color streamers?
o Koinobori?
o banners
- Activities
o Ikebana (mid 16th cent.)
o Tea Ceremony (late 16th cent. became a fasion)
o Uta-awase or poem competition
- Games
o Go
o Shougi or Japanese ‘chess’
o Sugoroku or backgammon
o Kemari or hacky-sack
o Gitchou, like field hockey or croquet
- Entertainment
o Noh – Zeami (1364-1444)
- Important/influential cultural information
o literature
ß tale of heike (power struggle between heike and genji clans at end of 12th 
century)
o bakufu government
ß military/warrior gov’t headed by shogun, led daimyou, emperor was symbolic 
but powerless
o rise of Shinto
o warrior ‘caste’ directing cultural tastes
ß go
ß ritual suicide (hara-kiri or seppuku)
- classes
o overview of history
ß just muromachi
ß just our section of muromachi
ß all of ‘medieval jpn’ (kamakura and muromachi)
ß include heian?
o period garb
o sumi-e
- food
o wagashi
ß Japanese confections dating from importation from T’ang China (618-907) of 
ingredients and trade of making
ß Influenced by nanban
o From Wikipedia on Japanese cuisine
ß Small individual box tables (hakozen î†ëV) or flat floor trays  set before 
each diner used before 19th century
ß Rice bowl on left, soup bowl on right
ß Tamari more period – soy sauce without the wheat

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