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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 31 Oct 2017

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

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        5. 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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