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nobrashfestivity · 1 year
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Shibata Zeshin 柴田是眞
Mouse,19th century/Edo Period
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inefekt69 · 6 months
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Sannenzaka - Kyoto, Japan
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eosvartauga · 1 year
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Edo era Sashiko-Embroidered Hanten
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chaoticpersontale · 5 months
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Blue eye samurai
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beifongkendo · 7 months
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Evening on the Sumida River, by Kobayashi Eijiro (1910).
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jadeseadragon · 5 months
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Harmonia Rosales @honeiee
"A small portion of a larger painting. This is Olokun, the god of the primordial waters. Angered that Obatala created the lands without her consent, Olokun sought to reclaim her dominion with a great flood. To stop the floods Obatala chains her to the bottom of the ocean…this is the very moment before she is imprisoned within her own kingdom. She stands as a symbol of the chaos that bubbles beneath our calm surface, a profound reminder of the lesser-known parts of ourselves we often retreat from."
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reynkiart · 2 months
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A nature study turned into Blue Eye Samurai fan art...
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courtingwonder · 8 months
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Kuniyoshi Utagawa - The Sailor Tokuso And The Sea Monster (1845)
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thatsbutterbaby · 11 months
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Covered basket. Edo period (?), 1615–1868 / Japanese / Blackened bamboo   x
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folkfashion · 11 months
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Edo chief, Nigeria, by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
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flyingprivate · 9 months
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Sky Voyager,
Designed by Embraer Design Operations (EDO) in collaboration with Boeing Business Jets (BBJ),
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kemetic-dreams · 1 year
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THE ANCIENT GREAT BENIN EMPIRE
The Benin Kingdom was a flourishing ancient city situated in modern day Nigeria. During pre colonial era, Benin was one of the many highly developed cultures in Africa. This kingdom got its start up around 900 CE when Edo people settled in the tropical rainforest of West Africa.
The walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom was the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era, and was featured in the Genius Book Of Word Record. Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace. When the Portuguese first visited the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages, calling it "Great city of Benin".
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searchsystem · 4 months
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Lynxeye / Edo / Packaging / 2023
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l0st-amul3t · 3 months
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Blue Eye Samurai styled Inuyasha 😌💕
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tanuki-kimono · 5 months
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First of all- thank you for your work with this blog. I really enjoy the information you share, and the kimono designs are wonderful. I have a question- I know you've talked about how 'men don't/didn't wear Bright Colorful Designs' is more complicated then people assume! (Which makes sense- saying 'in X period men Never Wore Colors' isn't true about, say, the Victorian era either!).
But to get to my point- I happened to be reading a very old collection of mysteries called "The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi". In them, a young Hanshichi is described as wearing a very bright red and yellow striped kimono that made him 'look like a merchant'. At the time I assumed this implied he was dressing a little flashily- I'm curious if I was right about that!
You most welcome :D
And the parallel you draw with Western men fashion is pretty accurate: we tend to think menswear was always pretty dull (arf modern business suits) when in fact this tendency is quite recent!
As to your question about fashionable Inspector Hanshichi (for those who don't know: hero of early 20thc detective novels with "supernatural" elements written by Kido Okamoto), I think you are right. The "look like a merchant" is probably a mix of:
He's dressing below/above is condition. I don't remember Hanshichi exact social status (is he a yoriki? a doushin?), but samurai class were supposed to dress differently from merchants for ex.
He dressing flashy - "nouveau rich" style. Merchant class was at the bottom of social order BUT hold in fact all financial power in Edo period. Some merchants tried to emulate samurai dress (=conservative), while others didn't hesitate to show their wealth and dictate new fashions.
He is dressy flashy - dandy style. Hanshichi is a wakamono (young) and probably fashionable man, following whatever trend he likes - a late Edo heritage of early Edo kabukimono (flashy young samurai)
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beifongkendo · 3 months
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Okayama Castle, by Kawase Hasui (1934)
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