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Was "Aku Soku Zan" (悪即斬) a real Shinsengumi motto?
Perhaps most telling is that the phrase is bad Classical Chinese. If I were to put it in English as "Evil, namely slay," that is not perfectly correct but would give a sense of the mangled grammar. ...
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Why didn't Japan adopt western utensils?
First of all, the question is based on an incorrect assumption: the Japanese actually widely use Western utensils (fork, spoon, knife). This is generally missed because of the context.
The long ...
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Why didn't Japan adopt western utensils?
Summary:
It is really hard to eat Japanese, Korean, and Chinese food with a fork and spoon
Details:
China, Japan, and Korea serve formal meals "family style" in small pieces. Family style ...
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Did samurai wear hakama long enough to hide their feet?
Japan, 1860. Samurai. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai)
It seems, they had it long.
And obviously, in different times they used different lengths. And of course, they used shorter variants when ...
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Why didn't Japan adopt western utensils?
I do not know about cutlery especially, but it might have a thing to do with Japan's mentality and history.
Japan, unlike many european and asian countries, is very careful of the influence of foreign ...
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Did the House of Representatives during Meiji Era exercise their powers?
Context: The Meiji period refers to Emperor Meiji's reign, from 1868 to 1912. The Japanese parliament is now known as the National Diet - a bicameral legislative body. During the Meiji era, the ...
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