Most of the Samurai and geisha related work you see are portraits I did as favors to players in another of my forum-based L5R games. Others however, are original characters belonging to a Samurai tale I made up years ago and now burns in development hell.
Enjoy! And feel free to call me by my WC avatar if you wish.









Take that, Western Philosophy!
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happiness is overrated.
I already finished The Antichrist but don't know what to cover of his after BGE. I was thinking of going back to the begining and reading the Birth of Tragedy or the Geneology of Morals. And to think I was so big on Immanuel Kant mere months ago. Freddy tore right into his empty heart.
Makes one wonder what Nietzsche thought of the Samurai of Feudal Japan. I'm trying to write a story about a Samurai's daughter who chases after her father for allegedly abandoning his duty to guard a mountain shrine.
Nietzsche's causing me to rethink my approach to the whole concept of duty and how it is actually impossible (or at least abominable) to divorce one's emotions from obligation.
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happiness is overrated.
Interesting project you have. Yes, it would be interesting to see what Nietzsche thinks about feudal Japan. My feeling is that he would recognise the master morality in their social organisation, whilst being critical of the authoritarianism and the straight jacket of the social code. He is critical elsewhere of the emotional restraint of certain oriental cultures, and it seems that his own ideal was closer to the renaissance concept of the complete man - the warrior poet and philosopher artist.
Duty in Nietzsche is always a duty to oneself - or rather, to overcome oneself and upbringing, and strive to achieve one's highest personal ideal via intelligence, self-sacrifice, courage and creativity (at least, that's my interpretation!).
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