More Research...
Aug. 5th, 2004 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tj_dragonbladeI've a couple more Saiyuki-fic-related questions, if anyone would care to answer...
Are Sanzo's 'leathers' officially...well, leather? I can't imagine skin-tight leather beneath the robes would be entirely functional, comfortable, or feasible. And it really doesn't *look* like leather to me, either; but that's how I usually see it referred to. Is there an official notation somewhere that what he wears is leather? Or is is more a fanon-invention to avoid descriptions like 'that skin-tight black sleeveless-shirt and long-glove-thingies'?
What exactly does 'Tenkai' refer to--is it a place (i.e., 'heaven') or more of a time-frame (i.e., 'the Tenkai era')? Or have I totally inferred the wrong sort of meaning from contextual use?
And what's 'tankoubon' mean, while I'm at it?
Are Sanzo's 'leathers' officially...well, leather? I can't imagine skin-tight leather beneath the robes would be entirely functional, comfortable, or feasible. And it really doesn't *look* like leather to me, either; but that's how I usually see it referred to. Is there an official notation somewhere that what he wears is leather? Or is is more a fanon-invention to avoid descriptions like 'that skin-tight black sleeveless-shirt and long-glove-thingies'?
What exactly does 'Tenkai' refer to--is it a place (i.e., 'heaven') or more of a time-frame (i.e., 'the Tenkai era')? Or have I totally inferred the wrong sort of meaning from contextual use?
And what's 'tankoubon' mean, while I'm at it?
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Date: 2004-08-06 07:05 pm (UTC)And it really does look more like spandex than anything else. Even if Sanzo *doesn't* seem the type to wear it...