Maruoka Castle in Sakai, Fukui by Visit Japan

One reason I love traveling to Japan is that I feel like I stepped into a different time period that detaches me from the present.

Samurai Jack: The Fifth Season Review

why me

I love that there are advancing levels to Fowlers boredom while spending 10 years cooped up in his private castle. In addition to planning a hostile takeover of Japan he

Learned to paint

Set up a sex/torture dungeon that involved him getting pegged on the regular

Trained monkeys to throw hallucinogenic dust at people, so that potential invaders would have to fight though the heavily armed, super booby trapped castle while tripping balls

girl dinner

2000s anime

Climber doodle dump ( and a jackie )

Just finished Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix and it was incredible.

Spoilers!!

The Art, the murder, Mizu's pure and unending rage, the fact that Taigen is our 2020's Li Shang - bi awakening and all (y'all this man gave us a sexually fraught wrestling match between two supposed men that ended with him getting a bona-fide boner from being pinned down by his freind/rival/enemy/childhood victim). The discussions that will spawn about race and gender, Mizu's self-loathing quest for revenge on the men who potentially brought her/them/him into a world that was always going to despise her/them/him for even existing. Akemi "I want to be great" in response to Taigen "I don't care about being great, I just want to be happy".

EPISODE 5!! THE ONRYŌ!! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SHOW!!

But the thing that I'm obsessing over the most is that Mizu fucking burned Edo to the ground to kill Abijah, and then she/they/he didn't even fucking kill him! Hello? I know there's reasons and everything but still that city is burnt fucking dead and Mizu is just off on a boat to London with one of her three living potential fathers in the brig so she can better find the other two.

Also just "The biggest city in the world is burning to the ground as a blood sacrificeto your revenge. Your white half is showing." What a line Abijah you goddamn madlad.

I'm frothing at the mouth for season 2

Experimental

Jackie and TG! :]

i can draw them 100 billion times wanna see

Fun Trivia : Did you know that Osaka Castle was black?

It was built by the real Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, before it was destroyed and reconstructed into a white castle by Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the death of the "dictator" Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi constructed impressive castles like Osaka to herald his new position.

Castles that were built during Hideyoshi's reign like Hiroshima, Okayama and Matsumoto are black. Castles built during Tokugawa's reign like Hikone, Himeji and Nagoya are white. So when you see a castle on your next trip to Japan, you can guess who built it. 😉

The differences in color is due to the resources availability at the time, as white plastering were more expensive than black lacquered timber, so it is of no surprise that Tokugawa later used white for his castles as a symbol of wealth and power. 

You can read more from the book, Samurai Castles by Jennifer Mitchelhill which share the history of Japanese castles, from its designs, architectures, layouts, significance and legends, coupled with wonderful photos of the castles by David Green.

Samurai Castles: Evolution & Overview | The Shogun-ate

*snatches kuraima hat*

"HEY!!"

Kuraima tries to chase after anon but failed. He looked up, thankful he still had the many pieces of cloth on his head.

Fowler: -leaves his fortress to move somewhere else-

My sister: Your white man is in another castle.

Me: