[ANSTHRLD] Question about Japanese-style Heraldry

[tmcd at panix.com]

"Kitty O'Neal" <kitty at swbell.net> wrote:
> How would that be blazoned, assuming the charge in the middle is an
> open fan?
>
> Argent, within a(n) <outline of a circle...  what's the
> blazon-term-thingie?> azure, a fan gules?

The primary charge is blazoned first.  The fan, being in the center,
has first dibs on primariness.  If it's a good-sized fan, it's
"Argent, a gan gules within an annulet azure".  Only if it's a small
fan and the annulet visually overwhelms it would it be "Argent, within
an annulet azure a fan gules".

An annulet looks like a circular open O.  I strongly suspect that the
default fan is open, handle to base -- I think that's what the Pict
Dict showed and said.

Daniel de Lincolia
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com; tmcd at us.ibm.com is my work address