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#823 [2007-04-05 01:10:10]

Book Covers as Fanart

by secretarytocapt3

I find that playing around on photoshop is way faster than drawing stuff
so I made pretend fantasy book covers.

FUJITA GORO THE MAN WITH FIVE NAMES
http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/FujitaGorou.jpg

DAI-BOSATSU TOGE (sometimes spelled daibosatsu---on the copy I have by
C.S. Bavier it is spelled with the -dash-)
http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/DBT.jpg
whoever wants this novel --just email me and I'll give you the links--
this was at one point one of the longest novels in the WORLD and it
made the Shinsengumi notorious in the late Meiji Era (when atleast a
couple of the Shinsengumi were still very much alive). But to
understand the novel you have to read the intro the author wrote---the
author was also a huge nerd (school teacher and also T.A.ed as well)
the story was pedantic but also pure PULP FICTION WITH SWORDS...it is
still one of the best novels I've ever read--truly spectacular.

both these covers are part of my novel (yes! it's almost done...just
polishing some scenes now--I'm so excited! I know when the story is
good and done when I want to write parodies of it)...

ONO SUZUE: A MAN OF TALENT* IN THE MEIJI ERA
http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/OSBanner2.jpg [thank you Anne Cain
of http://www.dragonsdisciple for providing the character sketch)

It does feature Fujita Goro (fictionalized as Fujita Gorou)---his
private life is emphasized in chapter 4 although he enters the plot in
book one and appears in all 5 chapters. Where there is Gorou, there is
Tokio...sigh...she practically dragged the laptop away from me.

*the phrase Man of Talent (or men of talent) was a real phrase used in
books published during the Meiji Era to describe two "generations" of
men. The older generation being the all stars of the IMperialist camp
(Inoue Kowashi/Kouashi, Ito Hirobumi, Okubo Toshimichi, Mori Arinori
interestingly those who were more "samurai" like Saigo Takamori or
Yamagata Aritomo was never described as such)--it was applied to men
who had toured the west and had a very strong literary side. "Men of
Talent" was also applied to those who were just teenagers during the
Boshin War and later on studied abroad and returned to Japan to
modernize the country---it was a label used for atleast 2 Aizu samurai
associated the Fujita family.

The phrase is so common that it stuck in my head and I wonder how it is
written in JAPANESE.

In any case I was devastated when a coworker flipped through a print
out and said "oh this is like the Talented Mr. Ripley". After I
scratched her eyes out (I hated that movie, it was good in the
beginning then got old) I realized that the title does sound too much
like that Matt Damon flick (thank Buddha Jude Law was in it).

I would like to think my little story, which spans the Boshin War to
the the 1880s is going to be pretty different....yeah different.
Horror + history of science + a dash of dirty Meiji Politics + yaoi and
straight sex = over 60,000 words although I am editing out and revising
now.

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#824 [2007-04-05 23:44:22]

Re: Book Covers as Fanart

by fission6000

*gasp* You know I love the Ono and Fujita covers, but the one for DBT
is great! The colors (black and red) are so bold and just perfect.


--- In SHQ_Spy_Division@yahoogroups.com, "secretary"
wrote:
>
> I find that playing around on photoshop is way faster than drawing stuff
> so I made pretend fantasy book covers.
>
> FUJITA GORO THE MAN WITH FIVE NAMES
> http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/FujitaGorou.jpg
>
> DAI-BOSATSU TOGE (sometimes spelled daibosatsu---on the copy I have by
> C.S. Bavier it is spelled with the -dash-)
> http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/DBT.jpg
> whoever wants this novel --just email me and I'll give you the links--
> this was at one point one of the longest novels in the WORLD and it
> made the Shinsengumi notorious in the late Meiji Era (when atleast a
> couple of the Shinsengumi were still very much alive). But to
> understand the novel you have to read the intro the author wrote---the
> author was also a huge nerd (school teacher and also T.A.ed as well)
> the story was pedantic but also pure PULP FICTION WITH SWORDS...it is
> still one of the best novels I've ever read--truly spectacular.
>
> both these covers are part of my novel (yes! it's almost done...just
> polishing some scenes now--I'm so excited! I know when the story is
> good and done when I want to write parodies of it)...
>
> ONO SUZUE: A MAN OF TALENT* IN THE MEIJI ERA
> http://1happyturtle.com/SilapaJarun/OSBanner2.jpg [thank you Anne Cain
> of http://www.dragonsdisciple for providing the character sketch)
>
> It does feature Fujita Goro (fictionalized as Fujita Gorou)---his
> private life is emphasized in chapter 4 although he enters the plot in
> book one and appears in all 5 chapters. Where there is Gorou, there is
> Tokio...sigh...she practically dragged the laptop away from me.
>
> *the phrase Man of Talent (or men of talent) was a real phrase used in
> books published during the Meiji Era to describe two "generations" of
> men. The older generation being the all stars of the IMperialist camp
> (Inoue Kowashi/Kouashi, Ito Hirobumi, Okubo Toshimichi, Mori Arinori
> interestingly those who were more "samurai" like Saigo Takamori or
> Yamagata Aritomo was never described as such)--it was applied to men
> who had toured the west and had a very strong literary side. "Men of
> Talent" was also applied to those who were just teenagers during the
> Boshin War and later on studied abroad and returned to Japan to
> modernize the country---it was a label used for atleast 2 Aizu samurai
> associated the Fujita family.
>
> The phrase is so common that it stuck in my head and I wonder how it is
> written in JAPANESE.
>
> In any case I was devastated when a coworker flipped through a print
> out and said "oh this is like the Talented Mr. Ripley". After I
> scratched her eyes out (I hated that movie, it was good in the
> beginning then got old) I realized that the title does sound too much
> like that Matt Damon flick (thank Buddha Jude Law was in it).
>
> I would like to think my little story, which spans the Boshin War to
> the the 1880s is going to be pretty different....yeah different.
> Horror + history of science + a dash of dirty Meiji Politics + yaoi and
> straight sex = over 60,000 words although I am editing out and revising
> now.
>

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