I'm still hopeful for the original Khoe and hope there is more of her story...
I originally was not going to post until the last one but for some reason the last one is not up yet.
another great story TaLtos! you have us in suspence yet again...
I had originally planned to just split up the tale into 5 parts - which is what it ended up as. And I planned to just post all of them at once and let Lit figure out when to put them up as it suited the editors. But I didn't get the last one posted on the same evening - which added a delay, and then I noticed an error, so I had to dive in to fix it - adding another delay. So it's all my fault, as things usually are, lol...
But I expect (purely guessing) that it'll be up in another day or maybe two - I hope.
It was a lot of fun to write, and I did my best to be a little opaque on some things, such as you'll see in maybe the last or second-last paragraph, as in, ... "How did she DO that?"
It wasn't meant to be a deep thing to read, other than the first chapter about Khoe's background - which I made up and THEN had to research for plausible connections. That made it a challenge.
If you liked the premise of Khoe - and I'm a HUGE fan of strong women - then I can offer a little hope to come later. I've been scratching out a paragraph at a time while writing my other stuff about a Danish trader, working for the Dutch, selling arms illegally on Hokkaido about 1816 or so. Don't know just when it'll be done since I have a number of things on the go, but I'm chugging along with it. I can pretty much guarantee that you'll like the girl in it, too. Aiki-san is a lady who thinks that if you're female and belong to the Samurai class, well then you'd better know a thing or five about playing the part.
I haven't heard or read many stories with women as samurai. (Granted, I haven't read many stories with samurai at all, but I'd say 98% of the ones I have were all men.)
As a social class, Samurai extended to both sexes, though women were obviously much more the homemakers. Still, they were Samurai. While the husband was off to war, and if things had gone badly, it fell to the women to defend the home and if they died trying, it was expected of them.
But though they were VERY few, there indeed were some women warriors and some of them fought better than the men. One of them, Tomoe Gozen was said to have been worth a thousand warriors. She could master any horse, wild or not, and her favorite weapons of choice were the naginata and the bow and she could handle either one from the back of a horse with ease.
English
Captivating
Can't wait for the ending. thanks...........
more please?
I'm still hopeful for the original Khoe and hope there is more of her story...
I originally was not going to post until the last one but for some reason the last one is not up yet.
another great story TaLtos! you have us in suspence yet again...
The wait
I had originally planned to just split up the tale into 5 parts - which is what it ended up as. And I planned to just post all of them at once and let Lit figure out when to put them up as it suited the editors. But I didn't get the last one posted on the same evening - which added a delay, and then I noticed an error, so I had to dive in to fix it - adding another delay. So it's all my fault, as things usually are, lol...
But I expect (purely guessing) that it'll be up in another day or maybe two - I hope.
It was a lot of fun to write, and I did my best to be a little opaque on some things, such as you'll see in maybe the last or second-last paragraph, as in, ... "How did she DO that?"
It wasn't meant to be a deep thing to read, other than the first chapter about Khoe's background - which I made up and THEN had to research for plausible connections. That made it a challenge.
If you liked the premise of Khoe - and I'm a HUGE fan of strong women - then I can offer a little hope to come later. I've been scratching out a paragraph at a time while writing my other stuff about a Danish trader, working for the Dutch, selling arms illegally on Hokkaido about 1816 or so. Don't know just when it'll be done since I have a number of things on the go, but I'm chugging along with it. I can pretty much guarantee that you'll like the girl in it, too. Aiki-san is a lady who thinks that if you're female and belong to the Samurai class, well then you'd better know a thing or five about playing the part.
Ooh, female samurai?
I haven't heard or read many stories with women as samurai. (Granted, I haven't read many stories with samurai at all, but I'd say 98% of the ones I have were all men.)
@cittran
As a social class, Samurai extended to both sexes, though women were obviously much more the homemakers. Still, they were Samurai. While the husband was off to war, and if things had gone badly, it fell to the women to defend the home and if they died trying, it was expected of them.
But though they were VERY few, there indeed were some women warriors and some of them fought better than the men. One of them, Tomoe Gozen was said to have been worth a thousand warriors. She could master any horse, wild or not, and her favorite weapons of choice were the naginata and the bow and she could handle either one from the back of a horse with ease.
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