clothes make the man
Dec. 23rd, 2010 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
langwidereI just emerged from one of those endless related-image spirals at Ffffound. [*BLINKS*]
So, I couldn’t find a photo or a drawing of an ao no matter what, and the Wikipedia page is empty. PAIN. Which is compounded by the fact that in modern Japanese "襖" means "sliding screen" (with a different reading, of course). I found this nice-looking page of animuesqe drawings of medieval Japanese garments, which seems to suggest that "ao" is the general term for any number of articles of clothing which have sleeves that are separate from the front of the garment — but I don’t know if that’s true, even assuming I read it correctly, and I couldn’t bring myself to link it up.Because if it’s wrong, you know someone somewhere will eventually complain. I think I had people rising from the dead to whine that I’d missed some vital element of the metaphors inherent in Fay’s coat buttons, back in the day. Not that I’m bitter.
Anyway, I have just updated my translation of Rashoumon to accommodate Jamie’s incredible suggestions, so it is much, much better now than it was. By miles. Naked-man comics, here I come! (In a manner of speaking.)
DreamWidth keeps giving me codes, even though nobody I know wants them. Do you want them? Do you know anybody who wants them? If no one wants them I’ll post them to![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_codesharing.
I recently started following this tumblr, because it has photos of bunnies and cakes and retarded-looking himegyaru who have voluntarily disfigured themselves with adult-sized Hello Kitty toddler rompers and circle lenses. Um. Does that title say "kanji kana mixed sentence"? Why would it say that? Is that some famous quote from a movie or something? Because that would be kind of hot.
Almost Christmas! ☃
So, I couldn’t find a photo or a drawing of an ao no matter what, and the Wikipedia page is empty. PAIN. Which is compounded by the fact that in modern Japanese "襖" means "sliding screen" (with a different reading, of course). I found this nice-looking page of animuesqe drawings of medieval Japanese garments, which seems to suggest that "ao" is the general term for any number of articles of clothing which have sleeves that are separate from the front of the garment — but I don’t know if that’s true, even assuming I read it correctly, and I couldn’t bring myself to link it up.
Anyway, I have just updated my translation of Rashoumon to accommodate Jamie’s incredible suggestions, so it is much, much better now than it was. By miles. Naked-man comics, here I come! (In a manner of speaking.)
DreamWidth keeps giving me codes, even though nobody I know wants them. Do you want them? Do you know anybody who wants them? If no one wants them I’ll post them to
dw_codesharing.I recently started following this tumblr, because it has photos of bunnies and cakes and retarded-looking himegyaru who have voluntarily disfigured themselves with adult-sized Hello Kitty toddler rompers and circle lenses. Um. Does that title say "kanji kana mixed sentence"? Why would it say that? Is that some famous quote from a movie or something? Because that would be kind of hot.
Almost Christmas! ☃
Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-24 05:50 pm (UTC)http://tinyurl.com/3aezsfv
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Anyway! This is Lark again. I still lurk, ha, if you remember me.
Also, Merry Christmas! Even though it's a bit early for that.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-25 09:57 am (UTC)…You wouldn’t perhaps want a DW code, would you?
Ooh, thank you for the images! I shall go link one directly. I got so frustrated Japan-Googling "襖" and "平安時代" and getting pictures of big sliding screens with cats and chickens on them that I could’ve punched somebody. Damned Japan, failing to cater to my every digital whim! Jeez.
The code for imbedding a link is: <a href="http://linkinhere.com/">Here’s the link!</a>
(Usually, anyway; sometimes different services require slightly different markup, but that’s the standard HTML.)
Thanks again, and a very Merry Christmas to you, too! ♥
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-26 02:47 am (UTC)Actually, sure, I'll take one. I'm told that I need to start a blog, and I've never really liked LiveJournal or anything. I take it DW is at least better than LJ?
No problem! I actually just went to regular old Google, and I have checked that I want Chinese and Japanese results to be included under preferences. Lots of screen doors, but also lots of padded coats.
Pff, I probably should have remembered that from highschool. I kept looked at the allowed HTML under the preview box and couldn't find URL. Silly me. I've been using BBcode too long. Thanks, though. : ) I'll use that from now on.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-26 10:33 am (UTC)Yes, but you are very memorable.
Actually, sure, I'll take one.
HAHA YAY. SCORE! ONE DOWN, EIGHT MORE TO GO.
I take it DW is at least better than LJ?
I like to call it "LJ without the wank." (So: Yes.)
Do you have an e-mail address I can send the code to? Or do you want me to IM you or something?
I have checked that I want Chinese and Japanese results to be included under preferences
I tried an image search @ http://www.google.co.jp/ and found all kinds of shit, including (of course) porn — but mostly screens. Screens and screens and screens and then Heian-era screens. I found a couple of random articles about Heian-era costumes, but I was either unable to identify what article of clothing was being referred to as an "ao," or the thing that was supposed to be an ao looked different from site to site. And then I started feeling a little stabby.
Thanks, though. : )
Oh, no problem. I use this program called BlogAssist, which I got for $5 during a MacUpdate promo, which keeps track of almost all my code snippets for me. So I’m not 100% sure I could come up with the link code on my own, either. Hee.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-28 01:19 am (UTC)They must be handing those out like candy. I suppose Christmas is when a lot of people start blogs or something?
Anyway, you can send the code to MarredDawn@yahoo.com. I don't get on IM often because I tend to get mobbed by people when I do, ha.
The ao is a padded jacket, of sorts (or at least I've been made to understand). Started in China and then spawned a bunch of similar clothes in Korea, Japan, etc. I also got a lot of screens when I looked, but no porn! Thank god. My filter is even off. Maybe that is Google's new influenced search methods at work.
I wish I had $5 to spend, and I would likely get that (or $15, as it is now). Unfortunately, my funds are currently tied to grad school applications. :( I will keep it in mind, though!
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-30 11:37 am (UTC)Actually, they’ve been mailing them to me in batches for the past year, and as everybody I actually enjoy speaking to online already has an account, my options have been:
1.) Give them to really annoying people who, operating under the mistaken impression that I like them, go on to annoy me further, or
2.) Hoard them!
It wasn’t really much of a choice.
I had absolutely no idea what an ao was. I thought maybe it was one of these things, but apparently not.
I get nekkid ppl no matter what I Google. Talent, that is.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I will be unemployed until the second week of February and I have my domain to renew, too, so I’m keeping my discretionary spending down to "nothing" for awhile.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-31 03:06 am (UTC)Haha, at least it isn't something that needed a grievous amount of thought to decide? (Sorry, I like to remain optimistic.) (You are avoiding those annoying people!)
Well, it seems to have changed a little throughout the years (you get lots of modern padded coats if you Google it now), but the kanji's original meaning is "padded coat." I have no idea how that transformed into folding screen.
Ah, the old Google game. How many pages until you hit porn. The new layout makes that a little more difficult, though. You could hold records, haha.
It's hard, you know? Especially when I go into a bookstore... :|
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2010-12-31 01:16 pm (UTC)You are avoiding those annoying people!
This is possibly my only natural, in-born talent.
I have no idea how that transformed into folding screen.
Maybe the medieval Japanese started hanging their padded coats up on shouji in the winter, and then they thought: Haaaaaaaay…
Especially when I go into a bookstore...
I actually try and stand outside them and wait for people, whenever possible. Usually the only books they put in the front of the bookstore are the latest dunce-bait by Dan Brown, Sara Gruen, Stephenie Meyer, John Grisham, etc. Totally resistible.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2011-01-01 01:58 pm (UTC)I had to learn to be not nice, unfortunately. I still can't help trying to help an anti-feminist out of their opinion with facts, though. What a discussion that was.
Hahaha, as likely as any other! Maybe shouji paper was what they used for the padding?
I haven't heard of Sara Gruen before, but in a line up like that, I will have to consider myself lucky. Or, as my sister says, I should consider myself out of a good laugh.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2011-01-05 12:06 pm (UTC)When you hit anti-feminists with facts they melt, like the Wicked Witch of the West. This is somehow always funny.
Sara Gruen wrote Water for Elephants, a truly horrible book that is the stylistic midpoint between Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, and the creative amalgamation of a circus-themed multi-chapter AU fanfic and The Days of Our Lives. I think they’ve got "A Novel" appended to the title for taxonomic purposes. Otherwise, I doubt people would be able to tell. They might think it was a new kind of shoe with words on it, or something.
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2011-01-05 11:36 pm (UTC)Ahahaha! It looks like all of her books are "A Novel." The synopsis certainly reads like one of those teenage-angst shows where all the actors are supposed to be 15 and look like they're 25, except this time in reverse. Either way, I think I'll save my eyeballs (and my cash) on better, actual literature. Thanks for warning me!
Re: Ao pictures
Date: 2011-01-08 02:22 pm (UTC)THOSE POOR HETEROSEXUAL MEN! WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE HETEROSEXUAL MEN? WHO SOMETIMES HAVE TO MAKE THEMSELVES SANDWICHES WHEN THEIR WIVES WORK LATE?? OR WHO COMPETE FOR JOBS/OPPORTUNITIES WITH EQUALLY-QUALIFIED LADIES AND MINORITY MEMBERS, WHO ARE OCCASIONALLY (BUT VERY RARELY) PREFERRED FOR REASONS OF DIVERSITY? IT IS A TRAGEDY.
I love it that people see the very beginnings of the repeal of white straight male privilege and react to it as though it is, you know, a campaign of victimizing evil. It only seems like a losing battle if you expect that straight white men should have the first choice of everything in the world, in the first place.
Thanks for warning me!
You are welcome.