(D1: MM: Event) Hand-carved gift
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:13 am
Koi waited a long time during the gift offering ceremony, she allowed all the Great Clans and any Imperials to partake before she wanted to present her gifts last thing she wanted was to upset someone else over the fact that she presented an item first. The Moth lingered in the crowds watching gifts being presented, and the old ritual repeated over and over again. Koi felt sorry for the clan champion, to repeat one self over and over is alarmingly taxing especially when its as regimented as it is.
Today the Koi had taken out her favourite kimono from her sister, it had been the gift she sent to her from Kyuden Kakita. A kimono of purple, with hues of lilacs covered with silver moons, and silver stars illuminating lilac hued Moth's. The kimono was very fashionable at this time, and it made the jade hues of Koi's eyes sparkle. Her hair was plaited carefully, beads having been spread throughout the hair and a small silver Moth clip brought her outfit together with a little make-up. Koi perhaps looks the most beautiful she could for the moment, inside her stomach twisted knots over and over again until she was happy with the queue of samurai that have gone before her and approached.
As much as Koi did not love her family, today the beautiful Moth represented her clan as beautifully as she could.
"Shika-dono, thank you for inviting me into your hearth and into your home." Koi would say in as clear, light, pleasant and silvery voice as she could after bowing deep before the Clan Daimyo of the Deer Clan. "In gratitude I offer you a gift that I have spent many nights crafting for you on behalf of myself and that of the Moth Clan from wood collected from the oldest trees within our forest. These trees are blessed by the denizens of Yume-do for it holds many stories of those finding pleasant dreams, when I searched for the right wood to produce these cups I was guided there by Deer Baku spirit that lead me to a branch that had been separated from the tree by a storm and wished for me to craft from it."
Koi produced a box that she had been carrying, it had been hand carved simply but it carried the Mon of the Deer clan upon the top and painted with the clan's colour. The wood was a rich chocolate brown from a spruce tree sanded and smoothed carefully over time, opening the lid held the traditional sake cups including a larger vessel to hold sake to be poured. As the containing box opened the scent of freshly carved wood could be smelt for a moment, sake cups was polished smooth and dark with a shining varnish which at the bottom contained a small deer with small moths adoring the inside of the cup and outside of the flask.
Today the Koi had taken out her favourite kimono from her sister, it had been the gift she sent to her from Kyuden Kakita. A kimono of purple, with hues of lilacs covered with silver moons, and silver stars illuminating lilac hued Moth's. The kimono was very fashionable at this time, and it made the jade hues of Koi's eyes sparkle. Her hair was plaited carefully, beads having been spread throughout the hair and a small silver Moth clip brought her outfit together with a little make-up. Koi perhaps looks the most beautiful she could for the moment, inside her stomach twisted knots over and over again until she was happy with the queue of samurai that have gone before her and approached.
As much as Koi did not love her family, today the beautiful Moth represented her clan as beautifully as she could.
"Shika-dono, thank you for inviting me into your hearth and into your home." Koi would say in as clear, light, pleasant and silvery voice as she could after bowing deep before the Clan Daimyo of the Deer Clan. "In gratitude I offer you a gift that I have spent many nights crafting for you on behalf of myself and that of the Moth Clan from wood collected from the oldest trees within our forest. These trees are blessed by the denizens of Yume-do for it holds many stories of those finding pleasant dreams, when I searched for the right wood to produce these cups I was guided there by Deer Baku spirit that lead me to a branch that had been separated from the tree by a storm and wished for me to craft from it."
Koi produced a box that she had been carrying, it had been hand carved simply but it carried the Mon of the Deer clan upon the top and painted with the clan's colour. The wood was a rich chocolate brown from a spruce tree sanded and smoothed carefully over time, opening the lid held the traditional sake cups including a larger vessel to hold sake to be poured. As the containing box opened the scent of freshly carved wood could be smelt for a moment, sake cups was polished smooth and dark with a shining varnish which at the bottom contained a small deer with small moths adoring the inside of the cup and outside of the flask.