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Fuyou-hime
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[2007-09-27 21:25:01 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 3093; Deviations: 712; Watchers: 564
Watching: 57; Pageviews: 82572; Comments Made: 5917; Friends: 57
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: lots of themFavorite bands / musical artists: Rin'
Favorite writers: lots of them
Favorite games: Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time
Tools of the Trade: the pencils I find on the floor
Other Interests: Kimono, geisha, art, literature, manga
# About me
Current Residence: Washington DCFavourite photographer: my grandfather
Favourite style of art: hand-drawn manga
MP3 player of choice: ipod
Favourite cartoon character: Ichihara Yuuko, Yomiko Readman, Amir Halgal
# Comments
Comments: 1034
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Hello Fuyou, how have you been? I hope you are well!
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Hello!!! I really do enjoy your art very much and being myself a big fan of the traditional Japan, I'm looking for someone who could support my new web side, where I offer ancient hand made traditional skin care from Japan...I need someone who could support me with their pictures and found your pictures to be very vibrant and authentic, also your enormous wisdom about the tradition is just so exciting!!! I'm sure you know a lot of things about geisha & samurai their culture and rituals....please let me know if you would be interested in some correspondence. I'm living in Germany btw...
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Thank you very much
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Hello,
My name is Julia Rose, I've just been looking at some of your photos, journals, and art. Just who are you? I mean that in the most flattering way possible because you seem to have a wealthy knowledge of Japan and rather than reading all your journals I'd thought I'd ask. Are you Japanese? I figure you are, but I didn't want to simply assume. Awww, your photos of geisha are the first thing that caught my eye and when you mentioned living in Japan in the description my eyes sparked with fascination and curiosity!
Sincerely, Julia Rose
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Thank you for the message, faves, and watch! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed my photographs. To answer your question, I'm not Japanese. I've been interested in and studying Japanese art and traditional culture for some time, and I spent my junior year studying abroad in Japan. That was when I had the opportunity to photograph maiko and geiko in Kyoto. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask
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So I take it you can speak in Japanese then? When did you begin to learn Japanese? I hear the Japanese are very polite to foreigners, but are difficult accepting them the way they accept their fellow Japanese (especially the older generations). I've also heard of Tokyo referred as the city of progress and Kyoto the city if tradition.
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I began learning in college. My Japanese was better at the time I lived there, but I wasn't able to maintain lessons after returning. My school only had one Japanese language professor, and she worked at the other colleges nearby, so our system was basically a mess. I want to take lessons again, but I'm not in a position where I can afford it on my own.
I can't possibly generalize how all Japanese people react to foreigners. Generally speaking, I was treated very politely when I was there, but it can be harder for people who stand out more. The topic of nationalizing non-Japanese people is a rather contentious issue in Japan, so there are going to be widely varying opinions among Japanese people.
Well, that's a rather large simplification. Tokyo is the capital of pretty much everything in Japan, especially technology. So, it's rather cutting-edge. But Tokyo is still over 400 years old, and there is a lot of history there. It's actually not that hard to find either. Kyoto is so strongly associated with traditional culture because of it's history as the previous capital as well as the fact that it has preserved so much traditional architecture since it wasn't bombed during WWII. Before the war, Tokyo had extremely large tracks of traditional housing like Kyoto, but the city was bombed very extensively during the war. It's not talked about much outside of Japan, but in fact the damage to Tokyo exceeded the damage done to either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, save for the radiation. Almost every other city of Kyoto's size was bombed, so Kyoto's unusual for a city of its large size. But Kyoto isn't the only source of traditional culture in Japan. The region it's in, the Kansai region, is famous for its culture, and most small cities and towns have maintained their culture, often more effectively than Kyoto has. Also, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Kyoto was completely pretty heavily with Osaka and Tokyo in modernization, and there are still effects from that. Kyoto was the first city to really get a movie industry going in Japan, for instance, and there are some big film companies situated there. Basically, the idea of Tokyo as cutting-edge and Kyoto as traditional is true, but very simplified.
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I've just learn so much about Japan that I wasn't expecting, thank you for the education! I have a love for culture and history outside of my own, obviously including Japan. I've considered learning Japanese myself, and maybe even living there. I want to go into drawn animation see, and well frankly the U.S. is waaay more in computer animation. Japan is constantly making anime, which I've loved since I was 5 years old and overall seem to have a higher respect for it. I believe Hayao Miyazaki is the highest grossing film director in Japan? Or one of the highest?
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Are you as excited about Maiko Momokazu-san becoming Geiko soon as I am? Sorry, there just aren't very many Geiko/Maiko fanatics on this site~ ^^ She's going to make a beautiful Geiko~
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I'm sorry about the late reply!
I actually haven't been keeping up with the day to day activities of the kagai, so I wasn't even aware that Momokazu-san was going to have her erikae soon. Congratulations to her!
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I like your pictures very much. Especially the Maiko and Geiko pic's.
Have a nice day.^^
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You're welcome
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You're welcome. It's a very beautiful photograph
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I have a question about geisha and their geimyo I was hoping you could answer for me (as I'm very ignorant about Japanese naming conventions). My question is: Is it ever appropriate to use a geiko/maiko's birth name rather than their professional name? For instance, if their non-geisha mother came to visit would she just refer to her daughter by her given name? Or if in the unlikely event a geiko ever had time for a serious boyfriend, which name would he call her by?
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A geisha will still keep her given name even after receiving a geimyo. The geimyo is really just a professional title, and it's not an official name change. So, in many instances, such as non-geisha related relationships and official documents (taxes and such), that geisha doesn't use her geimyo. It's the same if she were to become a natori of a school of art and take an official name within the school, it's only used within specific context. So, a geisha's actual mother would still refer to her daughter by her given name, unless she was referring to her daughter-as-geisha (if that makes sense). I guess with the boyfriend it would really depend on the specifics of their relationship, but from what I've seen, geisha who have boyfriends consider that to be a non-geisha related issue and go by their given name.
I hope that I was able to help you
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Thanks for the fav, by the way those Geisha Kimonos are so gorgeous! I wanna draw em at some point. ^^
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You're welcome. Please feel free to draw them. I would love it if more geisha artwork was based on the real thing
I keep wanting to make drawings of hanbok, but I've really gotten out of the habit of drawing. I need to fix that.
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You're welcome. Your artwork is really beautiful
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Thanks for the fav and good choice with Yomiko Readman as Favourite character
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You're welcome. Yomiko Readman has been a favorite character of mine for a long time
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You're welcome! Thank you for the llama
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Beautiful and I love that you provide so much information
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Thank you very much
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