Asakiyume mita - art from littlemetaldrop

From: origa Date: April 24th, 2008 07:43 am (UTC) (Link)

Lovely drawing! She is very good, and very creative! And I like the paper -- it looks very much like the handmade paper (by Sergey) I used for painting the wild boar, koi, and some other sumi-e :)

So, it's really a Japanese game? :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 07:51 am (UTC) (Link)

It's a hand game--I think it's very widespread. It's best played by just two people.

Scissors cut paper, rock breaks scissors, and paper covers rock. So you count to three, or in Japanese you say "Jan-Ken-Pon," and then you either make a fist for a rock, or your first and second finger in a V for scissors, or your palm flat for paper. Your opponent does the same thing. If you indicate rock, and your opponent indicates scissors, you win, but if your opponent indicates paper, he wins. It's fun.

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From: origa Date: April 24th, 2008 07:58 am (UTC) (Link)

Oh, I know this game well -- it's popular in Russia, too! My son used to always played it with his friends, as a child. Only the order was "rock - scissors - paper". I was smiling at the note that it's a Japanese game :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 08:10 am (UTC) (Link)

The ninja girl is describing its Japanese incarnation, but yes, it's probably universal.

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From: origa Date: April 24th, 2008 08:20 am (UTC) (Link)

So, Jan-Ken-Pon means "one-two-three" in Japanese?

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 10:49 am (UTC) (Link)

No, they're just sounds. "One, two, three" in Japanese would be "Ichi, ni, san."

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: April 24th, 2008 08:51 am (UTC) (Link)

I like the scissors guy!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 10:50 am (UTC) (Link)

:-D Tell you what; go over to littlemetaldrop and let her know. Thanks! (stupid HTML...)

Edited at 2008-04-24 10:51 am (UTC)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 11:27 am (UTC) (Link)

I'm going to delete a bunch of our exchange, below, to preserve anonymity of key folks, okay?

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: April 24th, 2008 11:34 am (UTC) (Link)

No problem. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 01:01 pm (UTC) (Link)

thanks ♥

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: April 24th, 2008 09:21 pm (UTC) (Link)

I felt like a secret agent.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 09:54 pm (UTC) (Link)

I know what you mean ^_^

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From: cottonmanifesto Date: April 24th, 2008 09:30 am (UTC) (Link)

that's beautiful!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 10:52 am (UTC) (Link)

Thanks! You can let the artist know directly at littlemetaldrop.

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From: haikujaguar Date: April 24th, 2008 11:18 am (UTC) (Link)

Those are awesome! I love how clearly they evoke their items. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 11:22 am (UTC) (Link)

Oh I'm so glad you saw! The artist, who is littlemetaldrop on LJ, really enjoyed your art in The Aphorisms of Kherishdar, so I'm really pleased that you liked this one, of hers. She posted this picture on her LJ, too, just now, so you can tell her directly if you go there.

Yeah, I liked the way she chose appropriate motifs from Japanese art for each item.

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From: desert_sparrow Date: April 24th, 2008 11:24 am (UTC) (Link)

Amazing drawing. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 11:25 am (UTC) (Link)

I like it too!

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From: b_oki Date: April 24th, 2008 11:26 am (UTC) (Link)

I love this piece. Its very creative and cleaver.
She's very talented!
I left her a note at her LJ.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 11:29 am (UTC) (Link)

Thanks :-)

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From: ebourland Date: April 24th, 2008 12:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

That's quite cool.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 01:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

Glad you liked it!

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From: ebourland Date: April 24th, 2008 01:44 pm (UTC) Looks at it further. (Link)

It's really very beautiful is what I think. Your fam has a lot of talent.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 01:53 pm (UTC) Re: Looks at it further. (Link)

Thank you. It's a pleasure for me, too, enjoying the various forest creatures' accomplishments :-)

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From: heyes Date: April 24th, 2008 12:28 pm (UTC) (Link)

And now I have a brand new super awesome desktop picture.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 01:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

This will please the artist! :D

I hope she wins the contest.

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From: watermelontail Date: April 24th, 2008 02:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

WIN!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 02:34 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thought you might like this one.

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From: watermelontail Date: April 24th, 2008 02:35 pm (UTC) (Link)

Saved as desktop background.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 24th, 2008 03:05 pm (UTC) (Link)

Then you and heyes have matching desktops, currently.

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From: watermelontail Date: April 24th, 2008 03:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

:)

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From: heyes Date: April 24th, 2008 04:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

/vote = win

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From: shortiyergirl Date: April 25th, 2008 12:11 am (UTC) (Link)

I love paper :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 12:16 am (UTC) (Link)

She's quite pretty, I think so too :-)

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