My mother used to say\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know the answer to that, but I know where to find it!\u201d<\/p>\n
(She was a librarian.)<\/p>\n
So, no, I don\u2019t have any references for Japanese names – but I know where to find them! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
The lovely heralds over on Facebook\u2019s SCA Heraldry Chat group reccommend the following:
Name Construction in Medieval Japan<\/i>
From the vendor: Written by \u201cSolveig Throndardottir\u201d (aka Dr. Barbara Nostrand), a large compilation of historical Japanese names – forenames, surnames, nicknames, their meanings, and the appropriate Japanese ideographs. <\/p>\n
<\/i>[Link<\/a>]\n I also found some web resources which might be helpful.<\/p>\n \u201dJapanese Names\u201d on\u00a0An Online Japanese Miscellany<\/i>, by\u00a0Nihon Zatsuroku<\/p>\n[Link<\/a>]\n A list of pre-1600 Japanese name resources A Long History of Japanese Names, Part II: [Link<\/a>]\n For clothing\u2026.<\/p>\n The Costume Museum (Kyoto) – Heian Period: [Link<\/a>]\n History of the Kimono, Part II, Nara and Heian: [Link<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mother used to say\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know the answer to that, but I know where to find it!\u201d (She was a librarian.) So, no, I don\u2019t have any references for Japanese names – but I know where to find them! \ud83d\ude00 The lovely heralds over on Facebook\u2019s SCA Heraldry Chat group reccommend the following:Name Construction … Continue reading “Hi, do you have any references for Japanese names? I’m looking at doing a Japanese persona from around the Heian time period. Also, do you know any references for garb for that time period? I’m looking at a lower noble\/ high-ish merchant class. Thank you for your time. This helps a lot!”<\/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":[312,100,74,313,121,190,191,178,116,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-d5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
by Issendai (who appears to be a SCAdian\u2026)
[Link<\/a>]\n