[Sca-cooks] OT: Period name for a tree??

[Elaine Koogler]

Thanks!  I did do a web search, but didn't come up with this site.  There
wasn't any information there as to when the English name, "paulownia", came
into use, though it did document the use of the wood in Japan as early as
795.  So I posted to the message board and hope that I'll get a response.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Kisner" <sjk3 at admin.is.cornell.edu>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: Period name for a tree??


>>desperation, I decided to use the English translation of my nickname,
"Kiri"..."Paulownia".  We all loved it, especially the cant on my name.
However, I'm now being told that it is not  a period word...that it came
into use in the 19th century and came from the name of a Russian Princess,
somebody or other Pavlovna.  Can anyone either give me documentation for the
word in period...or the Chinese name for the tree...I'd really rather not
try for "Kiri" herald, for obvious reasons.

Any help you all can give would be appreciated!!<<

     Well, there is a website (www.paulownia.org) with all sorts of links on
it, though a lot of its seems directed toward marketing.  But there are
links to articles about the wood (Japanese joinery, for example), and a
message board.

Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu

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