Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.14-19
Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.14-19
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Dogwood Blossoms,
Chapter 3: E-hon, pages 14-19
Tokyo, 1880 - Nakamura Yoshisada, the promising young artist and printmaker commissioned to create and illustrate this history, thought that the big-wigs of the Seiken Corporation were ridiculous to make up a supernatural history for their company, no matter how old and venerable they were. But they were paying good money, and the subject matter was interesting to draw, so he didn't quibble. Besides, that weird old Jakken fellow gave him the creeps. He was disappointed that he was only contracted to print twelve books, and that he was forbidden, by contract and some frightening, generalized threats, from printing any more. All his hard work would only be seen by a few internal corporate heads, and he would get no more profit from it! When he came in to his workshop the morning after having delivered the final product and receiving a generous final payment, he was only moderately surprised to find all his sketches and the woodblocks that had created the books had been destroyed by some intruder in the night. The commission payment had been enough to feed his family quite comfortably for three years, so he accepted all this with general equanimity, and chalked the whole thing up to a good, if slightly creepy, experience.
He went on to become a moderate success as an e-hon and ukiyo-e artist, and made a comfortable, though not flamboyant, living.
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The only child of Sesshoumaru's who is not pictured in the e-hon is Tian-Ren's eldest daughter, Inuhime, who died (twice) in childhood. She was an inquisitive child, and got into one too many scrapes and was lost.
The Character Outline has been updated with more information about all the characters depicted in this chapter, including name translations and some extra trivia about their lives, if you are interested enough in the massive number of OC's in this fic to be curious.
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Tian-Ren's dress isn't accurate, because google is failing me for the dress of Han chinese noble ladies in 1770-1780 Qing Dynasty China. So she's in what they would likely be wearing in 1880. If any of y'all happen to have better resources then I about Han women's dress in the 1700's, please link me to it, because I'd like to be accurate when I draw her next, if I can.
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Stats: Book layout photomanipulated from actual e-hon book scans and paper scans.
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Acknowledgments and Disclaimer: Inuyasha-tachi belong to Takahashi Rumiko and everyone
she has sold them to. This is a mostly nonprofit fan work that I'm putting too much work into
because I'm a pathetic period-accuracy purist. All historical inaccuracies are the fault of
myself--some deliberate, the rest out of ignorance. There is only so much time a girl can put
into research for a fan project.
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Dogwood Blossoms
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Dogwood Blossoms,
Chapter 3: E-hon, pages 14-19
Tokyo, 1880 - Nakamura Yoshisada, the promising young artist and printmaker commissioned to create and illustrate this history, thought that the big-wigs of the Seiken Corporation were ridiculous to make up a supernatural history for their company, no matter how old and venerable they were. But they were paying good money, and the subject matter was interesting to draw, so he didn't quibble. Besides, that weird old Jakken fellow gave him the creeps. He was disappointed that he was only contracted to print twelve books, and that he was forbidden, by contract and some frightening, generalized threats, from printing any more. All his hard work would only be seen by a few internal corporate heads, and he would get no more profit from it! When he came in to his workshop the morning after having delivered the final product and receiving a generous final payment, he was only moderately surprised to find all his sketches and the woodblocks that had created the books had been destroyed by some intruder in the night. The commission payment had been enough to feed his family quite comfortably for three years, so he accepted all this with general equanimity, and chalked the whole thing up to a good, if slightly creepy, experience.
He went on to become a moderate success as an e-hon and ukiyo-e artist, and made a comfortable, though not flamboyant, living.
------
The only child of Sesshoumaru's who is not pictured in the e-hon is Tian-Ren's eldest daughter, Inuhime, who died (twice) in childhood. She was an inquisitive child, and got into one too many scrapes and was lost.
The Character Outline has been updated with more information about all the characters depicted in this chapter, including name translations and some extra trivia about their lives, if you are interested enough in the massive number of OC's in this fic to be curious.
--------------
Tian-Ren's dress isn't accurate, because google is failing me for the dress of Han chinese noble ladies in 1770-1780 Qing Dynasty China. So she's in what they would likely be wearing in 1880. If any of y'all happen to have better resources then I about Han women's dress in the 1700's, please link me to it, because I'd like to be accurate when I draw her next, if I can.
----
Stats: Book layout photomanipulated from actual e-hon book scans and paper scans.
----------------------------
Acknowledgments and Disclaimer: Inuyasha-tachi belong to Takahashi Rumiko and everyone
she has sold them to. This is a mostly nonprofit fan work that I'm putting too much work into
because I'm a pathetic period-accuracy purist. All historical inaccuracies are the fault of
myself--some deliberate, the rest out of ignorance. There is only so much time a girl can put
into research for a fan project.
---
Dogwood Blossoms
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