Taisho exploring in Yamagata-ken

Yamagata touring

For 'Tsurukoi week' 🧡💜 Day 6 - '1920's'

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Uehara Konen - Japanese Castle at Dusk, color woodblock print.

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Hello there Taisho fans.

I was wondering if Shosei was kimono style and or a type haori.I was looking up on japanese uniforms during the Meiji/Taisho Era and found the term Shosei.I'm confused if it just refers to putting a Kimono over a western style shirt or if it is a haori specifically for put over the western shirt tucked into the hakama. I'm sorry if my question doesn't make much sense.

Hi :) "Shosei" in kimono fashion designates a style were hakama+kimono are worn upon a western shirt:

Before wwii, many city people would accomodate students (=shosei) in their homes in exchange for housechores, so shosei were students (attending a school or university) performing chores in exchange for room+board.

"Shosei" system was also used by learned people (such as writers, artists doctors for example) who had just graduated, were still debuting in their fields, or where away from home for a time.

In the early 20thc, it was pretty common for city dwellers to mix Western items with kimono, and many administrations in fact had Western inspired uniforms (see some school ones here), hence the iconic look of shosei which was I believe considered quite dandy at the time, see this past note:

Zashiki

Formal sitting area in our friends' Taisho Roman villa.

Life, the Universe and Everything

This is one of those coordinations I've wanted to do from the very moment I got this kimono, and have just been putting off for one reason or another for years. It was high time I fixed that! This past Thursday was my 42nd birthday, and this coordinate has auspicious motifs of hayama and kagami (arrows and mirrors) and my favourite colour (teal) so I decided it was finally time to do it. This kimono is definitely interesting - it's brighter and more bold than most kurotomesode of the era, and it's definitely very long for its age. The hem has a slight roll to it, so it's a bit heavier than the rest of the fabric. This, along with the length, lead me to suspect it was a hikizuri, meant to be worn trailing. I'd like to think it may have been a geisha's piece, worn at the new year, but this is just a suspicion of mine and I have no way to verify it. Whatever it is, I absolutely love it and should coordinate it more often. The cool afternoon lighting in my living room makes the teal look bluer in these photos, but it definitely sits right between green and blue in person. I decided to use reds and blues in the accessories to emphasize how bold and punchy this piece is, and to sort of reinforce the geisha-adjacent feel of it. I also decided to let it drape, hikizuri style, to show off the beautiful flow of it, and tied the obi wider than normal to match. The collars are a bit wonky, but sometimes I just cannot get them to cooperate due to the shape of the mannequin. Alas. This birthday has been a good one and I have very upbeat feelings about this coming loop around the sun. I hope I can share lots of new content and great news with you all soon! Read the full article

Correction about Raidou: The person Raidou saves from the curse is an admiral in the navy who got cursed since the navy was investigating the shady stuff the army was doing. This is a reference to the real-life conflicts between the Japanese army and Japanese navy which is considered one of the most notorious inter-service rivalries in history.

Okay, this one is complicated and I don't have a lot of time so I'm going to give the QUICK and probably useless version since it'll omit lots of details.

But basically, I won't deny what you say is correct but there are some odd things about the "important naval officer" scenario/scene, especially in the Japanese version. Much of my info on this is from a Japanese blog that goes into detail about nationalism in Raidou specifically. A healthy amount of it was summarized for me by @dijeh, who says much of it sounds a bit out there, lol. That said, there's still aspects about it that are conspicuous, but take with a grain of salt.

LP of the chapter (Episode 7: The Cursed Detective) here.

The Japanese version of this scene is available here.

If the cursed person were just an admiral, why the very coy, dramatic presentation at the Yatagarasu shrine? They could have easily created a fictional admiral character but instead chose to depict the cursed in silhouette and are talking around his identity despite his stated "crucial" role. This is just my observation.

The blogger emphasizes the following points (repeatedly, apparently, lol):

Atlus could not use Emperor Showa (Hirohito) because of his war crimes, thus they extended the Taisho era to a fictional year, 20; in reality, the Taisho emperor died of pneumonia and the era lasted only 15 years. Taisho was also a pre-war era and there is nostalgia for it.

The Yatagarasu organization is representative of the State Shinto of the period: the three-legged crow Yatagarasu was sent from the heavens to guide the first emperor, Jimmu, of Amaterasu's lineage, to military victory. State Shinto instituted the divine identity of the emperor, and the Yatagarasu organization is old and directly connected to the emperor. It specifically uses Japanese native religious imagery and names, not Buddhism.

The JP constitution says the emperor is the leader of the ground, sea, etc. forces, yet the game only names him the leader of the naval force because it's usually associated with heroic deeds, unlike the army which is associated with war crimes. (Personal anecdote: Japan still seems to be proud of its WWII naval forces and I visited a museum dedicated to the battleship Yamato near Hiroshima. I felt odd being there, since the Yamato was sunk by American bombers; I didn't feel the same way at Hiroshima, probably because its message is for global peace and total nuclear disarmament.)

The writer is also particularly bothered by the fact that you can't refuse to save this cursed person.

Last tidbit is that the god who curses the person is Hitokotonushi, who notably appears to Emperor Yuryaku in the Kojiki, where he says he can proclaim "good fortune in one word, bad fortune in one word," which the game seems to be quoting. This plays into the game's "Kunitsu seeking revenge on the Amatsu" plotline, so why would he curse someone who isn't also directly related to the Amatsu in some way?

taishōtale gaster,

some more infos bout him is here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/zyFsXsqxp8s?feature=share

Hasui Kawase, 日本風景選集 十七 雪の金閣寺 , 1922