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mastergraywolfJanuary 23, 2009: SPOILERS
Okay, excellent. I can finally black out some spoilers. Let's just say there are further things I want to reveal. When you see a black box, just highlight it to see the text.
***November 09, 2009: Hiatus
On November 3rd, 2009, I made the desicion to put my story on hiatus. After about five chapters, three short ones and two long ones, I've decided that I am not doing very well. Much of time has been spent on research and formulating ideas, and STILL I feel like I have not stepped out of the alpha stage of development. Of course, I have other things to do, life gets in the way, and a year has quickly passed. I also feel like an ameteur to partake in such a project, in such an ambition. I mostly do simple, children-like stories.
An hour of two of comtemplating over this story revolves around some of the following:
Understanding the ninja, and figuring out a theoretical origin on where they came from
Understanding samurai
Character creation
Understanding the historical world of Japan, especially in 16th century; notable events and years
Writing notes and collecting pictures for evidence
Martial Procedures
Way of Living
Make sure just about everything I learnt connects
Extrapolate every Japanese thing I learnt into fictional purposes
And I learn something new virtually everytime, everytime. Now I have all this, plus the difficulty into developing storylines. To be honest, I have little to no idea where I want to take this story since it is my first time trying to write a historical fiction, in Japan. So, I need more time to think over this story more.
And it's terrible that I think TOO hard:
Just some stuff from my research that puzzle me.
It was my initial idea to make the mountain villages of Iga and Koka as communities not regulated by the goverment, like in the familiar image. And that they existed for many centures like perhaps around the 900s, and are associated with the Buddahist temples, which have declined in importance. Everyone is harrassed by the rough taxation, Buddahist oppression (from the Shogun?), and fighting. In Warring States era, ninja activity became more evident.
Anyways, what I'm getting here is the Mochizuki of Omi Province (where Koka is) and their relationship to the Takeda clan. It seemed that Mochizuki samurai from Shinano Province, prominent property to the Takeda, haved moved to the villages of Koka probably in the 1400s. The Mochizuki was a family of many generations, and they contiuned the fight with the Takeda (thus, the associate of Koga ninja Sasuke Sarutobi with Takeda's retainer, Yukimura Sanada).
Also, surnames are prohibited to those who aren't samurai. This would mean that the ninja would have to be samurai or an alike class. Hattori Hanzo worked with Tokugawa as a retainer as well. So...
Okay, excellent. I can finally black out some spoilers. Let's just say there are further things I want to reveal. When you see a black box, just highlight it to see the text.
***November 09, 2009: Hiatus
On November 3rd, 2009, I made the desicion to put my story on hiatus. After about five chapters, three short ones and two long ones, I've decided that I am not doing very well. Much of time has been spent on research and formulating ideas, and STILL I feel like I have not stepped out of the alpha stage of development. Of course, I have other things to do, life gets in the way, and a year has quickly passed. I also feel like an ameteur to partake in such a project, in such an ambition. I mostly do simple, children-like stories.
An hour of two of comtemplating over this story revolves around some of the following:
Understanding the ninja, and figuring out a theoretical origin on where they came from
Understanding samurai
Character creation
Understanding the historical world of Japan, especially in 16th century; notable events and years
Writing notes and collecting pictures for evidence
Martial Procedures
Way of Living
Make sure just about everything I learnt connects
Extrapolate every Japanese thing I learnt into fictional purposes
And I learn something new virtually everytime, everytime. Now I have all this, plus the difficulty into developing storylines. To be honest, I have little to no idea where I want to take this story since it is my first time trying to write a historical fiction, in Japan. So, I need more time to think over this story more.
And it's terrible that I think TOO hard:
Just some stuff from my research that puzzle me.
It was my initial idea to make the mountain villages of Iga and Koka as communities not regulated by the goverment, like in the familiar image. And that they existed for many centures like perhaps around the 900s, and are associated with the Buddahist temples, which have declined in importance. Everyone is harrassed by the rough taxation, Buddahist oppression (from the Shogun?), and fighting. In Warring States era, ninja activity became more evident.
Anyways, what I'm getting here is the Mochizuki of Omi Province (where Koka is) and their relationship to the Takeda clan. It seemed that Mochizuki samurai from Shinano Province, prominent property to the Takeda, haved moved to the villages of Koka probably in the 1400s. The Mochizuki was a family of many generations, and they contiuned the fight with the Takeda (thus, the associate of Koga ninja Sasuke Sarutobi with Takeda's retainer, Yukimura Sanada).
Also, surnames are prohibited to those who aren't samurai. This would mean that the ninja would have to be samurai or an alike class. Hattori Hanzo worked with Tokugawa as a retainer as well. So...
