Why I do excessive research
Jun. 25th, 2011 07:57 amSo thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kaifu, I've been looking around at Hakata and Fukuoka as reasonable places for my persona to be from, and hunting up an appropriate clan name, 'cause I wanna be something resembling a samurai. (NOT a noble, tyvm.)
Enough research into the Shōni clan points me at another clan. The Sō clan fought with the Shōni and against the Mongols at Tsushima Island during the Mongol invasion. So they've been there a while, I'd guess, and should have been in the vicinity during my period.
The word for family or clan in Japanese is shi. 宗氏 -- Sōshi.
Um. I will take being able to document being part of the L5R Scorpion clan in my chosen region and time period! Thank you!
kaifu, I've been looking around at Hakata and Fukuoka as reasonable places for my persona to be from, and hunting up an appropriate clan name, 'cause I wanna be something resembling a samurai. (NOT a noble, tyvm.)Enough research into the Shōni clan points me at another clan. The Sō clan fought with the Shōni and against the Mongols at Tsushima Island during the Mongol invasion. So they've been there a while, I'd guess, and should have been in the vicinity during my period.
The word for family or clan in Japanese is shi. 宗氏 -- Sōshi.
Um. I will take being able to document being part of the L5R Scorpion clan in my chosen region and time period! Thank you!
