#saemon

[incorrect-bhaalspawn-quotes]

Saemon Havarian, to Charname: I know this is a terrible time for you, and I'm afraid I'm going to make it a lot worse.

[ask-baldurs-gate]

So Saemon, what the people really wanna know is why are you like this?

Well, it's really quite simple, see, someone's got to face the consequences of my actions, and it sure as Hells isn't going to be me.

[lobitadluna]

Sanada Saemon-no-suke Yukimura Made with Five Bellow Acrylic Paints. Card Size.

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Kisaragi Saemon fans.

[its-coda]

Modern-era william bradley but he goes by billiam

[shaydh]

Bg1 bg2(+tob)

I obviously love Baldur’s Gate 1/2! Story of all time!! Obviously EE has one of my fave romances Dorn, and I love my evil party members and their banter, but I even like how the good-aligned characters were written, best baby sister Imoen and Valygar and Aerie, they are all my friends! the fireball spell is soo satisfying. The underdark segment where you get to impersonate a drow! You can beat up Drizzt! Saemon Havarian is there! What a games.

[konjaku]

山吹[Yamabuki] Kerria japonica

太田左衛門太夫持資は上杉憲政(政真)の長臣なり。鷹狩に出で雨に合ひ、ある小屋に入りて蓑をからんといふに、わかき女の何とも物をばいはずして、山ぶきの花一枝���りて出しければ、「花を求るに非ず」とて怒て歸りしに、是を聞し人のそれは「七重八重花はさけども、山ぶきのみのひとつだになきぞ悲しき」といふ古歌のこゝろなるべしといふ。持資おどろきてそれより歌に志をよせけり。

[Ōta Saemon-no Taifu Mochisuke wa Uesugi Norimasa(Masazane) no chōshin nari. Takagari ni ide ame ni ai, aru koya ni irite mino wo karan to iu ni, wakaki onna no nan tomo mono woba iwazu shite, yamabuki no hana hito eda orite idashi kereba, "Hana wo motomuru ni arazu" tote ikarite kaerishi ni , kore wo kikishi hito no sore wa, "Nanae yae hana wa sakedomo, yamabuki no mi no(mino) hitotsu da ni naki zo kanashiki" to iu koka no kokoro naru beshi to iu. Mochisuke odorokite sore yori uta ni kokorozashi wo yose keri.] Ōta Mochisuke is a senior member of Uesugi Norimasa(Masazane)'s family. When he went a falconry and got caught in the rain, he went into a hut to borrow a mino, straw raincoat. A young woman, without saying a word, broke off a branch of yamabuki flowers and offered it to him, then he said, "I did not ask for flowers," and left angrily. Someone who heard this said that (she must have conveyed) the heart of the old waka poem, "Seven and eight flowers bloom, but yamabuki is sad because it does not bear even a single fruit (Another meaning: I am young and look like this, but poor and alone, I sadly do not have even a mino, single straw raincoat. * 身の一つだに[mi no hitotsu da ni] could also mean "I am alone, so...") He was shocked and began to study waka poetry after that.

雪玉實隆の歌に、「雨にきるみのなしとてや山吹の露にぬるゝは心つかしを」、後拾遺和歌集、「小倉の家に住侍るころ雨ふり侍りける日、みのかる人の侍りければ、山吹の枝を折てとらせ侍りけり。心もえでまかり過て」、又の日「山吹心得ざるよし」いひおこせて侍りける、返しにいひ遣しける、兼󠄄明親王、「七重八重はなはさけども山吹のみのひとつだになきぞかなしき(あやしき)」。

[Setsugyoku Sanetaka no uta ni, "Ame ni kiru mi no(mino) nashi tote ya yamabuki no tsuyu ni nururu wa kokorozukaji wo", go-shūi waka-shū, "Ogura no ie ni sumi haberu koro ame furi haberi keru hi, mino karu hito no haberi kereba, yamabuki no eda wo orite torase haberi keri. Kokoro mo ede makari sugite", mata no hi "Yamabuki kokoroezaru yoshi" ii okosete haberi keru, kaeshi ni ii tsukawashi keru, Kaneakira-shinnō, "Nanae yae hana wa sakedomo yamabuki no mi no(mino) hitotsu da ni naki zo kanashiki."] In Sanjōnishi Sanetaka's private collection of poetry, Setsugyoku-shū, "Yamabuki, which has no fruit (no mino, straw raincoat, to wear) in the rain, does not mind getting wet with dew." And in Go-shūi Waka-shū, Later Collection of Gleanings of Waka Poems, "When Prince Kaneakira was living at his house in Ogura, one day it rained and someone came to borrow a mino, straw raincoat, so he broke off a branch of yamabuki and gave it. The person left without understanding why," and on another day (because it was on his mind,) he sent a messenger saying, "I do not understand the meaning of that yamabuki," then Prince Kaneakira responded, "Seven and eight flowers bloom, but Yamabuki is sad because it does not bear even a single fruit (Another meaning: I am a member of the royal family but living in the mountain and poor, so I do not have even a mino, single straw raincoat. * 九重[Kokonoe], ninefold, means the Imperial Palace) From 常山紀談[Jōzan kidan] by 湯浅 常山[Yuasa Jōzan](1708-1781) Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/908050/1/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōta_Dōkan

山吹[Yamabuki] and 山葺[Yamabuki](葺 means thatch, and this could also be read as an abbreviation for "Poor house in the mountain Ogura"), 蓑一つ[Mino hitotsu](One straw raincoat) and 実の一つ[Mi no hitotsu](Only one fruit) and 身の一つ[Mi no hitotsu](The body alone). Such a technique of expression is called 掛詞[kakekotoba]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakekotoba

Whether this is a true story or not is not certain, but it is a well-known anecdote. https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cyw/id/351

The double-flowered yamabuki does not bear fruit. However, this is a horticultural variety. I do not know if it existed in the distant past. I think this expression perhaps mean that there are many single-petaled flowers. The single-petaled yamabuki produces inconspicuous fruits, though.

[fingons-rad-harp]

Abdel raised his hands over his head until his shoulders popped. It was hard to really stretch in full plate armor, but they didn’t have time to rest before moving on.

He did take off his helmet for a moment to crack his neck, though.

Imoen elbowed him with a grin. “Is it bad that this feels almost nostalgic?”

“What, our half-siblings trying to kill us?” Abdel snorted a laugh. “Business as usual. Sendai must be running out of underlings to throw at us. You’d think that by now they’d have figured out that won’t work.”

“Perhaps she has better things to do than deal with you personally,” Sarevok said.

Abdel rolled his eyes and slipped his helmet back on. “Because that’s worked out so well for everyone else,” he said pointedly. “Let’s go. She has to be close.”

Before he reached the door, he heard Sarevok’s voice again. “Why were you… friends with that beholder?”

Abdel almost laughed. Everyone else had been there when they’d first encountered the creature, and everything that had led to that very, very strange meeting.

He thought about trying to explain it. Irenicus, Spellhold, Saemon fucking Havarian, the Sahuagin city…

Not for the first time, Abdel wondered how the hells his life became so strange.

“It was a spectator, not a beholder,” he said. “And it’s a long story.”

[helloforgottenlibrary]

Amari Saemon no jô Nobuyoshi, from the series Courageous Generals of Kai and Echigo Provinces: The Twenty-four Generals of the Takeda Clan, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1848-1849

[blackjackkent]

This town is full of jerks. Halfway to the Temple of Waukeen we get another show of mercenary bravado:

Oh SHIT.

Saemon, you may recall, is the sailor who sailed us out to Spellhold and then tried to backstab us and turn us over to Bodhi. He then tried to un-backstab us and help us get out again later. As I recall that's the last we saw of him.

You're a very long way from the ocean, Saemon.

Is that so.

...

[LOUD SQUINTING]

Saemon, I was actually going to maybe help you out here, only because the mercenaries here seem like even bigger dicks than you, but the FIRST thing you do on seeing me is throw me under the bus immediately.

I hate you so goddamn much.

[facepalms into the next century]

[incorrect-bhaalspawn-quotes]

Saemon: Have I ever lied to you?

Charname: Yes. Several times.

Saemon: I meant today.

Charname: Yes. Several times.

[odaclan]

Maybe this is unrelated, but this always bugged me. Why a farmer or lower class people usually have "emon" Attached to their name? Is that meaning something or just to indicate that they are a farmer?

Well, I assume you mean in fiction, because I'm not aware of there being a registry of "names of peasants in the Sengoku/Edo period" to be looking at. I suspect that in fiction using "-emon" names is just an easy way to name generic background citizens in period pieces without worrying that you accidentally name them something that's too modern-sounding. It doesn't necessarily mean it's actually accurate or that it has a special meaning to it.

In the Sengoku some samurai also use that naming element, so it's not exactly "a farmer's name" per se.

The element -emon originally came from "emonfu" 衛門府, and this refers to the department of the guards for the outer gates of the imperial palace. As with many of the imperial offices, this department is divided into the "left" and "right", which became the name elements "uemon" 右衛門 (right) and "saemon" 左衛門 (left).

In time both of these just becomes name elements that have nothing to do with the imperial post. Saemon usually becomes -zaemon, as in "Matazaemon" (Maeda Toshiie) or "Gorozaemon" (Niwa Nagahide), and Uemon becomes just -emon. The "u" of Uemon is actually still written in the name kanji, it's just not pronounced (for example, Goemon 五右衛門).

It's true that I don't see the "uemon" one as often as the -saemon in the samurai names that I know of. Naming trends and such is not something I can really speak about, though.

[asian-heart-92]

Shūsaku Endō's Silence fancast (part 1)

Directed, produced and written by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Produced by James W. Skotchdopole,

Arnon Milchan

and John Lesher

Written by Hossein Amini,

Mark L. Smith

and Armando Bó

Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki

Edited by Stephen Mirrione

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto

For the production companies, there would be

and

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Diogo Morgado as Sebastião Rodrigues

Domhnall Gleeson as Francisco Garupe

Andrew Koji as The Interpreter

Chazz Palmintieri as Alessandro Valignano

Willem Dafoe as Cristóvão Ferreira/Sawano Chūan

Ario Bayu as Mokichi

Tao Okamoto as Kiku

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Inoue Masashige

Hiro Tanagawa as the Old Man

Shun Oguri as Okada Saemon

James Duval as Kichijirō

Anna Sawai as Mónica/Haru

Eddie Peng as João/Chokichi

George Takei as Ichizo

Hiroshi Abe as the Samurai

Hiroyuki Sanada as the Samurai commander

[theultimatepielord]

Alright time to figure out what the stories are (bg2 spoilers, also other Minsc/Bhallspawn spoilers). After a quick check of the wiki Minsc doesn't appear to have really messed with the Drow since Delina un-petrified him (even if he did, he's only been un-petrified for a decade at most, since his return occurred after Abdel/CHARNAME's death in 1482 DR, and bg3 happens in 1492 DR near as I can tell, ergo no legends), so we're talking adventures within BG's 1 and 2. There are only 3 drow in BG1, fellow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden (not spreading word to his people), Sharran exile Viconia De'Vir (also not), and absolute lunatic Baeloth Barrityl (does not appear to have ever shown his face again after being defeated by M'Khiin). So we're talking BG2.

In Shadows of Amn, there's an extensive Underdark portion centering around a drow city. However, Minsc rarely conflicts with drow as the party is disguised as drow (Minsc is told to refrain from speaking) in order to infiltrate the city and steal the eggs of the silver dragon Adalon, whose eggs had been stolen from the drow. Only Matron Ardulace Despana and her daughter Phaere ever learn the party's true identities, being helpfully informed by Imoen shortly before both of their souls are consumed by a demon lord who was quite displeased at being offered fake dragon eggs. TL;DR, no stories of Minsc.

That leaves Throne of Bhaal, where the party must cut their way through a drow enclave to face the Bhaalspawn Sendai, a member of the deadly Bhaalspawn Alliance known as The Five. What makes this hilarious is some of the details of Sendai's enclave: like one of her main allies being an Ulitharid (an illithid not directly tied to an elder brain, but still evil and usually either serving the local elder brain, working to become an elder brain, or both), or the fact that she was as much Bhaal's progeny as Orin or the Durge, being his biological daughter. But even funnier is this: Sendai is ultimately one of the less interesting or powerful of the 5. Illasera sucks, but Yaga-Shura is an invincible Fire Giant who slaughtered most of the Bhaalspawn in one fell swoop when he sacked the city of Saradush, Abazigal was a Blue Dragon, Balthazar was the strongest and posed the greatest challenge to Abdel and co., both as a combatant and from his rule of Amkethran, and The Five's non-Bhaalspawn leader, High Priestess (of Bhaal) Amelyssan the Blackhearted, nearly ascended to godhood before the party stopped her. TL;DR, the stories of Minsc and Boo that terrify drow children throughout the Underdark are a mere footnote in their most glorious story, and also reveal Drow complicity with two of the main villains of bg3.

Really makes me wonder how Minthara would react to the full version. (Also, do the Githyanki tell stories of Saemon Havarian, the only man to steal a silver sword and live to tell the tale?)

I think it's really funny that apparently the drow tell their children scary stories about both Minsc AND BOO. Like "beware of the large bellowing man, and that thang."

[onlyhurtforaminute]

ESCOTRILIHIM-SHADOW LUPUS OF SAEMONS-TUHR