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daisyachain · 1 year ago

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oh and also the Tsukasa/Amane costume dichotomy rrrrrocks. I don’t necessarily want to see it explored in detail as I’m not sure I trust this kind of story to handle that subtext well. Even so it sure is Something to have Tsukasa represent the pre-war and even pre-Perry style while Amane has the a style that is still classic iconography, but that just seems more modern/assimilated compared to Tsukasa’s…traditionalism?

Does it represent Tsukasa being stuck in the past while Amane has moved forward? Or Tsukasa never having grown up past their shared childhood? Is Amane’s uniform meant to come off as slick? It’s introduced as a starkly old-fashioned choice right up until Tsukasa’s hakama shove us another 50 years back in costuming time. Or, is it simply a matter of the supernatural being ancient? Yako wears traditional getup as part of her shrine guardian thing, but no, Tsuchigomori and the Clock Keepers have costumes from different eras again.

The twins were born and died in a period of fast techno/cultural transition that capped off a (longer-term) period of fast techno/cultural transition. One is the face of ye olde, one is…not the face of the new, not the face of the modern, but a recognizable face. Amane is retro rather than renfaire. But then, they both share the same hat.

#kelsey liveblogs jshk #whether it means anything or nothing I love it #going off on a total tangent here. shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu covers the same era that tsukasa and amane lived in #and did it…badly I’d say. in terms of the overall sense of cultural shift etc etc it was fine and melancholy #but the war interlude rather skips out on the cultural context esp with respect to miyokichi #soldiers are bad for women everywhere and Miyokichi specifically is running with an army specifically known #for its assault and abuse of (chinese and korean) women. but it’s only vaguely slightly hinted #that she might have a more complicated relationship with sex work because she was on the campaign #sukeroku and yakumo seventh spend a couple of years entertaining at the atrocity factory and you wouldn’t know it if you hadn’t looked it up #jshk seems to be operating in the post-war rather than war years but the costuming choices draw the eye further back

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