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that is an 1890 woodblock print of Emperor Taisho's family and women of the court walking in a public park in tokyo an antique medium depiction of new mores mingled with older conventions compare with a then-new medium (1918) capturing a different historical estuarypic.twitter.com/QpNjOfm71D
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Not to be that guy, but if this woodblock print is from 1890, then it would still be the reign of Meiji and Taisho (who would have been only 11 at the time), would be the crown prince, not emperor.
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Replying to @tohoku_taig
OOOOOH dang no this is a good correction, the naming convention confused me. Thank you!
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Replying to @eigenrobot
No worries. Good to see Taisho getting name dropped. Poor guy was unfit to rule. He gets eclipsed by Meiji and Hirohito.
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I got to him after reading a bit about the Order of the Garter for totally unrelated reasons--the collisions between cultures and eras are extremely interestingpic.twitter.com/0liRY3Xcpy
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