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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 Retweeted Haunted Forrest  🌲

      Lemme muse on this a little further...https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/922485977234509824 …

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      君の名は has me thinking about Japan's Spenglerian weltanschauung (if you believe Japan has one)
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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      I talked abt the urge to communicate, to connect, and on distance as a barrier between people--I had in mind the state of Japanese geography

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      The ocean around it more or less making it a miniature world of its own; the mountainous geography carving it up into micro countries...

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      ...even w a micro "sea" of their own in the Seto Naikai. much as the landscape impresses the uniqueness of all places on their residents...

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    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      ...it also hinders communication between them. Everywhere is an island surrounded by sea or a plain surrounded by mountains.

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      So, "we're in this to find each other more than to find ourselves" begins to take shape when political fragmentation is at its high point...

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    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      ...which is to say, during the Sengoku era. Nobunaga strikes me as analogous to Charlemagne, China taking Rome's role here

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    8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      The unification and the Edo era (as well as, I think, a few centuries before the unification) fall into the pre-cultural phase...

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

      ...with the cultural phase kicking off in earnest during the Meiji restoration; Japan's years of empire analogous to the Crusades

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          When Hideyoshi tried to conquer Korea and China, Japan was still the world--he was off campaigning in *other* worlds

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          but when Perry reopened Japan, the perspective shifted: the world got bigger, Japan was now as much one country within it...

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          ...as, in the past, individual provinces of Japan were countries within the "world" of the Japanese archipelago

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          Why was Japan whole now, instead of a world of its own? Well, this is a predictable take coming from me, but: 🚂🚃🚃🚃

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          The railway tied together Japan in ways that military conquest could never hope to--it was a *physical manifestation* of the ties that unify

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          For a while, Japan set about trying to unify the entire Pacific Rim the way it had once been unified: needless to say, this didn't work outpic.twitter.com/wiaAaJEQB4

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          The other major development of the Imperial era was that Japan switched from LARPing as China to LARPing as a Western great colonial power

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          Not a wholesale switch, really, but a sort of unique synthesis: more than just a combination of the two.

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        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          Establishing itself on the world stage in terms the rest of the world readily understood. Kinda like what they did w kanji centuries earlier

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        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          ...and kinda like what they did w American cartoons in 20th century! What appears to be copying at first turns out to be a wholly new thing

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        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          the railway is the physical embodiment of that yearning to be together, to overcome the distance between us, to communicate clearly...

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        13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          ...but the artform which really encapsulates this feeling, which inspires the rest of the world to take note, is in anime

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        14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          anyway, enough unverifiable rambling--I need to give this more time

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        15. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

          bear in mind, if this theory has any merit, is that we're still in the Springtime phase--VERY early in the development of this spirit!

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