#tachi

[straysketches]

"Timedancer" fam doodles -- my version of Tachi, the design I think she'll have closer to canon, and a few 'Tana doodles I added color to

[tanuki-kimono]

Most formal outfits for upper ranks samurai - Sokutai and Ikan formal court dress

(as worn by upper-ranked samurai of the Edo period - great charts by Nadeshico Rin). You can find more about samurai ranks and their regulated attires under the tag "samurai kimono".

The Sokutai

束帯 Sokutai is the most formal attire worn by Edo period samurai of the 4th rank and above.

It first appeared during Heian era as a ceremonial court dress worn by 公卿 kuge (nobility/Imperial court) and 殿上人tenjôbito (courtiers/court official​s). Usage was kept well into Edo period by both the Imperial court and the Tokugawa shogunate.

The intricated garb includes:

冠 Kanmuri - hat, with distinctive 垂纓 suiei "tail" hanging in the back. Materials could include silk, lacquer or horsehair and were strickly regulated

袍 Hô - a round-necked robe with large boxy sleeves. Colors and patterns were strickly regulated.

Shown here is a pattern used by the Shôgun, the 葵に丁子唐草 Aoi ni chôji karakusa (cloves with arabesques, and hollyhock leaves - which is the Tokugawa crest)

笏 Shaku - flat ritual sceptre

平緒 Hirao - a wide flat braid wrapped around the body with ties left hanging up front. Colors and weaves were strickly regulated

(飾)太刀 (Kazari)-Tachi - (mock) long sword for ceremonial use

表袴 Ue-no-bakama (or omote-bakama) - white overpants, shorter hakama pants worn over the aka-ôkuchi

赤大口(袴) Aka-ôkuchi(bakama) - red underpants, a tad longer than the overpants

下襲(の裾) Shitagasane(no-kyo) - visible train part of an inner robe worn under the 袍 hô. During Edo period, train lenght got up to 1丈 (around 3 meters/10 feet).

襪 Shitôzu - a type of ancient socks (construction is different than tabi - they don't have a sole for ex.)

石帯 Sekitai - leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer, and decorated with stones and jewels

The Ikan

衣冠 Ikan - while still very formal and worn by Edo period samurai of the 4th rank and above, ikan looked much more simpler than sokutai.

First used for nightime duties (夜間宿直) in Heian era, it gradually came to be worm during daytime too. From Muromachi period and onwards, it had become the work uniform of the Imperial court.

Like sokutai, it uses the hô+kanmuri, and wearers were allowed to carry kazari-tachi. Yet, note how the pants differ from sokutai ones: those are large bouffant pants called 指貫 sashinuki (or 奴袴 nubakama).

You can also note that wearer here is not holding a shaku scepter: it's a folded 檜扇 hiôgi (formal folding fan made of cypress also of Heian history. Those were unpatterned as painted ones were for women).

[creepa-b0t-inc]

@grimmpheonix let me have their Dog Shrine boss, so bam, here you go

I renamed em Tachi, because that's the name of the font I found AND tachi is a word that can be used to refer to karate moves

(also featuring cameos from @mercair's Shikari and @booripley's Blanca-Chan)

[longlivedead]

the sakura trick mangaka has graced us with sulemio doujin (again)

[k-d-t-art]

I decided Damon needed friends

Archie B, a sensitive drama king

Quinn, the sassy voice of reason (you probably remember them)

and Tachi, a loyal (and ever so slightly unhinged) robot

Still finalizing their designs but ye

[kaliracrafts]

smol fishy!

I have made a fish!

(Fishy is from this free pattern. I made a couple small tweaks, like invisible decreases rather than crochet 2 together.)

Dora's birthday (3 years old!) was yesterday, April 2nd, and Tachi's (he'll be 1 year old!!!) is tomorrow, April 4th - good day to make a cat toy, right? X3

Also first time I've made an amigurumi which it technically is - since the ball I have made is the only 3D item I have done prior. XP

Fishy's nose and body up to the last round before I began decreasing to work towards the tail:

It tried to flip the wrong way for the first like five rounds, but it worked up nice and tight (good, since I planned not only stuffing but catnip inside) and pretty smooth, too!

(That's a 3.5mm (E) hook and 8wpi cotton yarn.)

I followed the pattern instructions on when to stuff it with some doubts both working up to it and when I got there, but it worked out okay! The gap was, with a bit of poking, just big enough for my fingertip, to work in bits of stuffing and catnip (which I poured right out of its small test-tube like container) and smoosh it down to stuff it all in snugly.

I wanted the fishy to be pretty tough and thick, so I stuffed lots!

(I used proper polyfill, reclaimed from an old pillow, and a few pinches of catnip.)

Here he is before I wove in the tail . . . back into his tail. XD (And after that I pulled the yarn almost out of the needle, turned the needle around, and worked it through his body, losing the end inside.)

The tail was more complicated than the entire rest of the fishy, but I don't think it was harder really. Working so tight with such a tiny circle in some rounds was the trickiest part!

I'm happy with him, though, and. . .

I don't think I'm the only one! They did seem immediately intrigued, considering they were snoozing away while I worked it up. (Dora immediately started licking it, because of course she did. XD)

Tachi also launched off the couch after it when I tossed it, and seems to be enjoying it!

I'll probably make some more, maybe in more colours - maybe I'll make some striped ones!

(Project on Ravelry)

[susanoos-wife]

Swords of the wakizashi and tachi type with mounting, inscribed by Mihara no ju Morimasa and Takeshiba Toshiteru, mid 14th century and 19th century

[ladiscope]

[blkbushido]

[kalira]

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween! A cosy Tachi (from beside me right this moment in fact) for you~

The porch light's on for Trick-or-Treats!

[basil-the-scorned]

Words of Encouragement?

[straysketches]

Tachi doodle, closer to what I think she'll look like in-canon/older

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[thedashingduke]

One of my NPCs from an L5R campaign I'm running, she's a Dragon clan Agasha, trained in the Kitsuke investigator school. I tried to give her as much Jotaro Joestar energy as I could.

[joyce-stick]

So, Majime Girl to Seishun Lingerie is very really good.

It's about cute girls who really like looking at each other's undergarments and it's very cute and earnest and the girls are very wholesome sweet perverts who appreciate lingerie and are very good yuri friends

Just wanted to tell everyone.

They just really like it

[8amsh]

[k-d-t-art]

Lovers n friends