[Izzy]

Gentleman,

This might sound weird, but is anyone willing to exchange club/dojo tenugui ?

[cabonuserollyo]

Hi Alex...

... why yeah... I would love to.. but the is one problem... we dont have club tenagui....... wish we had though... but we have club jackets....

[freevideom]

Sure, but how?

Murdoch Uni Kendo club just got ours made. How do you wanna swap?

Meng

[TheBest-Host]

Air mail perhaps?

[Dpkefsuf]

No probs.

Message me your details

Meng

[BV6lwvXf]

No probs.

Message me your details Or E-mail

Meng

[zueqhbyhp]

cool:

E-mail sent

Meng

[ambiddetcat]

way off topic here, alex did you get the fabreze?

[Peter Hill]

Just thought about it when I wrote my address Lucian
It never reached me
I remember you told me when you sent it over but somehow it didn't arrive yet.
Have you sent it to your father who works in the shores or straight over?

[!!!maryann!!!]

my farther took it out with him and gave it to a guy he works with who live's in brazil, but that was some time ago now.
so i will send some more by post this time

[AntonioMQ]

A little off the topuic, but where would be a good place to have tenegui made?

[draigenia]

tozando can do it but min order 100-200 i think

[Shootohoist]

Oh, I see. Thank you so much Lucian. Living in the 3rd world is hard sometimes.

Takenaka-sam, Tozando's tenugui are the best i've used so far. They're big and ready to use. Other ones come in a rigid shape and don't tie adequately until the third wash. But you can make tenugui almost anywhere. Just draw an image of what you want, buy some light cotton fabric and search for these printing services around town.

[mXr8icOB]

Hey KhawMengLee and alexpollijr -- I'm game for swapping tenegui!

Let me know if you guys are too thru Private Messaging!

[Sawyer]

We don't keep a tenugi in our budokan, we find that raccoons generally make bad house pets. (however, the principal at my new school has a stuffed tanuki in his office.)
Heh, Hey Confound, have you ever seen those big stone Tanuki with the 2 big balls in front of pubs and so forth?

Back when I was in Kyushu, a friend and I tried to pinch one( A brilliant idea, deduced while drunk). We carried that big bastard about 50 yards, then went, "ah, sod this!"

Next mornin...afternoon we went out for breakfast and what did I see when we stopped at the lights(traffic)? The big bastard just sitting next to the pedestrian crosswalk. It was pretty surreal...

Heh, I love those fuzzy fellas!

Meng

[L6RLnyfl]

> However, if you mean a tenegui, we do have some of those....

Sent it over if you can Confound. If you want to, please leave me an address to ship mine over to you.

Thank you.

[freddystone]

Speaking of Tenegui... I was wondering if you guys (those who cannot really read Kanji) prefer:-

a) Traditional Tenegui with Sensei's writings/Dojo motto etc. Very stylish Shodo/Calligraphy (not to mention sometimes the calligraphy isn't that great/ they actually write the wrong Kanji!). I also found the writings pretty amusing... say one of my reads "Zettai Bupai", i.e. Absolutly Not Lose.... ha~ Not very good when all day I keep taking people's Men cuts.

b)The souvenir type, i.e. those from Taikai (xxxth anniversary) Sometimes they put too much information on that limited space, resulting in bad design.... Mmm... for national teams, a flag on Tenegui will be great... since last time I saw the Scottish George with a Swedish flag/tenegui!

c)The others...... When I was in a dojo filled with Kids, I saw one of the girls with a pink Hello Kitty tenegui, and another boy with a multi-colour Doraemon (ahh... I hope the dye won't come off). I suppose it will not be difficult to make your own... draw your own etc.

Well, if you can't choose your Zekken, choose your Tenegui! At least everyone has this option, so there's nothing to "Sour grape" about ~

[Adollobdeb]

Alas, all my tenugui have cliché writings in kanji. Heijoshin, Mushin, Munem Musou Meikyu Shisui, that kind of stuff. It's kinda classy. The "event tenugui" are usually ugly you know.

And the ones with imagery on them, well, never had one. A friend of mine had one with a huge tiger and other with a flower pattern. I confess I felt envious sometimes.

[saerensenatljn]

aaaaaarghhhhhh,
sorry for the cry of absolute stupefaction, but I just was astonished that for the first time I agreed with Confound ! maybe because it's the only time you've made much sense, but nevertheless, I confirm the tea towel story (tea towel= dish towel in the UK, folks here DO like tea ...). when i asked my ( Japanese) mother in law to send me some tenugui from japan, she kindly did so. they were a bit small, and did not have much in the sense of decoration of them: just white with lots of blue spots, or the same with a large red kanji in the middle. A bit small as well, but, hey, why not ? It's only when we wnt to the depatou next time i wnent to Japan that I realised that they came from the "kitchen ustensile" section of the shop !
I am still us9ing them, though. However, i have also bought some tenugui from some kendo shops, specialy from kendo. Altough they are quite similar, there is one bit difference: size, the ones for kendo are larger, and i prefer to use them, since they don't fall off my head during training -and annoy my sense (always a bad idea...). i have alos tried some of the tenugui-tea-towel as dish cloth, and they indeed perform admirably !
A. (aka T)

[BegeMoT]

Originally posted by Antonin
aaaaaarghhhhhh,
sorry for the cry of absolute stupefaction, but I just was astonished that for the first time I agreed with Confound ! I forsee a beautiful relationship blossming...