Diary of a College Samurai

[plasma]

Please turn the focus back to the Samurai LARPing and away from the gay hate crimes.

[Kane Hosokawa]

Weak.

[Neildo]

Fagakure. Nice.

[Shadowstalker]

Day 97

Dear Diary

It feels good to be writing in you at my customary place in my dormitory room. Unfortunately even that pleasure has been marred. It has been some time since I've written to you, for when I returned to my room after being released from the hospital following my last entry, I travelled back home and discovered that my sanctuary had been burgled! I must regard this as my own fault, diary, and I know that if I fail to gain revenge, then I will have failed and my life is forfeit, as is honorable. It seems to me diary, that I have recently been lucky enough to be confronted with many opportunities to gloriously disembowel myself. But we shall see how that pans out.

The burglary would have been seen by any ordinary Gaijin peasant as merely a prank, but I know better. First, diary, it was a defilement, my most holy books were defiled, the titles being written on and over, to name a few they touched Musashi's most revered book, replacing Rings with Men. The Book of Five Men indeed. While it is true that musashi was easily the equal in strength to five men, I sincerely doubt that is what they were referring to. The other one which bothers me more than any of the rest, diary, is that I found lying open on my bed my copy of the most holy of Samurai texts, retitled in a blasphemous way. I'm still not sure whether proprietry demand that I destroy it, or if I should honor it and leave it on my shelf, despite it now technically titled "Fagakure". I will haveto meditate on this

Other than the actual acts itself (many others of which abound. I have had to replace all of my food, and one of my wall hangings was tainted yellow. The white stains on my pillow do not bear thinking about...) I discovered, obviously left for me to find, a paper that had written on it merely "Shinobi for life" and a number of small designs clearly meant to imitate Kanji. Of course they failed. But I must unravel this mystery to discover exactly who burgled my sanctuary. I suspect that it could not merely have been just the ninja i've mentioned before. The stains on my pillow are far too numerous to be the work of a single Ninja. Only samurai are capable of such an epic undertaking. Speaking of which, diary, I have not yet allowed Astos or any of my students in to see my room. They must not know, I would hate for them to believe that my Samurai Powers are too weak to fend off mere ninjas. If only I'd been here when they tried this. But now, diary, I am to bed, though I dread the pain in my neck tommorow morning. I will haveto see about procuring a new pillow.

Forever and Always.

[Shadowstalker]

Hagakure is a collection of little short stories (mostly each one is no longer than a paragraph) that describes instances of actions by the samurai.

The anecdotes are supposed to be a "window into the mind" of the samurai and how they act and react in society to describe the code of bushido.

The anecdotes were related to a hermit or monk or something (can't remember) by a masterless samurai and the monk/hermit recorded the anecdotes.

I would be EXTREMELY pissed to find a ninja larper is naming his training manual after the hagakure.

The reason I suggested it is because in a large number of the anecdotes it has a samurai or someone bieng put to death or commiting seppuku. That would be funny in a "college samurai larping" context I think. It would take a huge amount of work though.

I was Thinking about it because I recently just found my copy that I thought I lost.

I have an almost unprecedented about of free time. I need to read Hagakure first though. But I do like the idea.

[Neildo]

Wow, that sounds pretty cool. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that.

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Hagakure is a collection of little short stories (mostly each one is no longer than a paragraph) that describes instances of actions by the samurai.

The anecdotes are supposed to be a "window into the mind" of the samurai and how they act and react in society to describe the code of bushido.

The anecdotes were related to a hermit or monk or something (can't remember) by a masterless samurai and the monk/hermit recorded the anecdotes.

I would be EXTREMELY pissed to find a ninja larper is naming his training manual after the hagakure.

The reason I suggested it is because in a large number of the anecdotes it has a samurai or someone bieng put to death or commiting seppuku. That would be funny in a "college samurai larping" context I think. It would take a huge amount of work though.

I was Thinking about it because I recently just found my copy that I thought I lost.

[Gosai]

I've heard of Hagakure but I haven't read it yet. I was put under the impression that it was a 'ninja instruction manual' more or less.

What is it actually?

[Shadowstalker]

Actually what would be truly bad ass is a take off on the Hagakure. Except it is a series of short writings about the actions of different "college samurais".

I really like this idea, actually. I recently promised my best friend that I'd read Hagakure, so I'll keep this in mind as I do.

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Actually what would be truly bad ass is a take off on the Hagakure. Except it is a series of short writings about the actions of different "college samurais".

[Kane Hosokawa]

you should make a website, with episodes of the college samurai

He does.

[Vulgar42Ox]

you should make a website, with episodes of the college samurai

[Shadowstalker]

I saw that. I think it was in the 50s, a Japanese army officer protesting the American occupation. He took over a Japanese army building and committed Seppuku inside after giving a speech on the balcony or some such.

If memory serves his second was rather incompetent. Makes ya shudder.

[Robstafarian]

Ah, I was just wondering if it was you or him who didn't realize that. And I can't really remember what it was...I think your right about it being a demonstration...I was watching that show on he history channel about Samurai (it was somewhere around 1-2 hours long...I can't remember specifics but wouldn't mind watching it again)

...

...History channel is still a credible source of information right?

I saw that. I think it was in the 50s, a Japanese army officer protesting the American occupation. He took over a Japanese army building and committed Seppuku inside after giving a speech on the balcony or some such.

[Silvan]

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