Combat: Samurai Island now has a new branch store in the wonderful Japanese sim of Nagasaki BAKUMATSU (Google translation). If you’ve never been to Nagasaki BAKUMATSU or Kyoto BAKUMATSU, I would strongly encourage you to go. At the very least I would recommend to anyone to check out those previous links, which may do far more than I can to convince you to visit.
While I was placing my vendor in the new store, Esprite mentioned to me that there is no fighting within the commercial areas of the sim, a departure from the Samurai Island locations, and that I could get a landmark to the fighting area by clicking one one of the nearby “no fighting” signs. I had a little trouble locating the signs at first, until Esprite told me that they had been translated into Japanese by the sim owner, Ryoma Sautereau. As much as I’ve been a lifelong fan of Japanese culture and martial arts, an avid reader of Takuan Soho’s writings (free PDF), and a practitioner of Aikido, I felt very humbled to have to ask someone to translate the signs and to not be able to understand most of what was said by the people around me, who appear to be genuine Japanese.
I am really going to have to make some time to check out these sims very carefully now, as I feel I have a great deal to learn from the architecture and aesthetic to be found there. Hopefully I will be able to do so soon.
Until I get that chance and have more to write about these wonderful sims and those who manage them, here’s the obligatory “new store” snapshot:
And a snapshot of the temple where I was taken after clicking the “no fighting” signs:
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