Oh goodness! <3 Flattery!<\/p>\n
Yeah, research into East Asia is difficult because of the language barrier – and that\u2019s just the beginning. \u00a0Japan should be a little easier than China, though.<\/p>\n
So with my initial Google searching, I found this website<\/a> with a variety of publications written in both Japanese and English, which may be helpful.<\/p>\n My next step would be to look at museum collections.<\/p>\n The Tokyo National Museum has a 14th century pouch that has braided cord: [Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n The Portland Art Museum had (at one point) an exhibit on Samurai that featured some kumihimo. They cite a book, but also feel free to reach out to the curators for more information: [Link<\/a>]\n Don\u2019t limit yourself to the search term\u00a0\u201ckumihimo.\u201d It\u2019s translated most often as\u00a0\u201cbraided cord\u201d so don\u2019t be afraid of using that term, especially in western museum collections.<\/p>\n Lastly, connect with other SCAdians who do Japanese crafts. There is a Facebook group for SCA Japanese<\/a>, so someone there might be able to help.<\/p>\n Happy braiding! <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh goodness! <3 Flattery! Yeah, research into East Asia is difficult because of the language barrier – and that\u2019s just the beginning. \u00a0Japan should be a little easier than China, though. So with my initial Google searching, I found this website with a variety of publications written in both Japanese and English, which may be … Continue reading “Okay, so dear reference guru, how even would I start trying to research and date kumihimo braid patterns to find some that are period? I mean, the basic spiral pattern is pretty safe because I can easily do it similar on lucet, but Japan, man. Halp?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,194,74,190,191,192,116,123,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-aw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}