#metsuke

[kendopath]

“Enzan no Metsuke”

I've grew up in the mountains.

Whenever I hear people talk about Enzan no Metsuke they always reference a mountain.

In my daily world, mountains are infinite.

When you've climbed a mountain and attained enlightenment, it turns out to be only the first peak; overlooking a vast landscape of more mountains.

Looking behind you, you see the same peaks and valleys you climbed on the way up.

Your journey will never end at the top of the mountain.

To observe your opponent as if viewing a distant mountain, limitless focus.

This is the view I imagine. Not a mountain, but a vast landscape of mountains. The view is so wide, you can't resolve a single mountain, because within you focal point lies 20 mountains.

The view of your opponents entire being.

The continental divide.

[desperateknot]

#GenshinImpact #AsaseHibiki

"Miss Guuji of Asase Shrine is brilliant of mind, eloquent of speech, and gorgeous of appearance. That must be why the human her was able to attract the attention of the in-humans...

I mean, who wouldn't be jealous of someone like her?

Still, she could be so cold sometimes!

be so cold sometimes!"

— A travelling student of the adepti

◆ Name: Asase Hibiki

◆ Title: Preserver of Memories

◆ Protector of Seirai, Guuji of Asase Shrine

◆ Element: Electro

◆ Constellation: Signatus Feles

#GenshinImpact #KamunaHarunosuke

"How very free, yet still a prisoner of his own mind. His body is unfettered to roam all over Teyvat, yet his mind is still trapped here, within that summer night, when the flowers bloomed among the stars.

Well, it would still be a lie if I were to say if I'm not both a bit jealous of and infuriated by him."

— Respected Guuji of Asase Shrine

◆ Name: Hamuna Harunosuke

◆ Title: Inheritor of Memories

◆ Disciple of Snows, Thunders, and Clouds

◆ Element: Electro

◆ Constellation: Vulpis Confinis

#GenshinImpact #MikoshiNagamasa

"Haven't seen him in a while. Doubt I will ever see his face again. Is he still that stuck-up little goodie-two-shoes?

Eh, I feel bad talking smack about him behind his back. It's not easy having a whole clan collapse on your back overnight. He has enough on his plate already."

— The young Yougou Tengu's Chieftain

◆ Name: Mikoshi Nagamasa

◆ Title: Servant of Memories

◆ Metsuke of the Tenryou Commission

◆ Element: Pyro

◆ Constellation: Ventus Puer

#GenshinImpact #Teruyo

"The tengu are naturally elusive. Thus, crossing-path with one of them must be an event ordained by fate itself indeed.

I have...heard things about Lady Chieftain of the Yougou Tengu, that she's a brilliant leader and an admirable warrior. If you somehow run into her...could I trouble you to introduce me? I only desire to have a duel with her. That is all."

— A fledging school's sword instructor

◆ Name: Teruyo

◆ Title: Brilliant Mountain's Heir

◆ Chieftain of the Yougou Tengu

◆ Element: Anemo

◆ Constellation: Volans Lux

#GenshinImpact #IwakuraMichihiro

"A man with no conviction, no aspiration, no principles, no loyalty, and no desire of his own. Utterly shallow, dull, and sluggish, he spent his days sitting still, not unlike a rock. You think those words are harsh? I think I am still being far too charitable."

— A Shogunate bureaucrat

◆ Name: Iwakura Michihiro

◆ Title: Serene Moon's Successor

◆ Iwakura the Successor, Douin of Iwakura School

◆ Element: Cryo

◆ Constellation: Mortalis Petra

I love my Yougou NPCs babies....Now guess which one is my favourite based on how I drew them

[littleeyesofpallas]

Yami Metsuke Sanjou[闇目付参上]: Dark (Edo era)Inspector Visits

[gintama-news-fr]

Contexte historique de Gintama

Sur cet article, nous allons faire un peu d'histoire, donc ça risque de vous ennuyer un peu. Je vais quand même ne pas parler de tout, ce sera juste un résumé. 

A gauche, c'est Hijikata, au centre, Kondo, et à droite, Serizawa Kamo(Ito)

Je vais donc parler de la véridique histoire du Japon durant l’ère Edo, c’est-à-dire de 1600 à 1868. Je parlerai surtout de l’ère Meiji, de 1868 à 1912, car Gintama se passe à la fin de l’ère Edo et au début de l’ère de Meiji.  Je parlerai donc de la vraie histoire en ce qui concerne les personnages historiques dont sont inspirés nos héros. Ici, c'est la première partie.   Explication de l’époque:

L’ère d’Edo est aussi appelée l‘ère des Tokugawa, elle commence lors de la bataille de Sekigahara avec la prise au pouvoir de Tokugawa Ieyasu et se termine lors de la Restauration de Meiji avec le changement de gouvernement.    En effet, les changements de nom d’ères sont faits sur le changement de l’empereur ou du gouverneur, ou parfois sur le changement d’une lignée de familles impériales. Les noms sont choisis en général par rapport à un événement ou la mise en avant d’une pensée pour l’ère. Par exemple, actuellement, le Japon est dans l’ère Reiwa c’est-à-dire « l’ère de la belle harmonie » qui a commencé en 2019.   Le pouvoir au Japon était très longtemps « balancé » entre l’empereur et le shogun. Le shogun est un chef militaire et l’empereur est indétrônable et sacré. C’est-à-dire que l’empereur est considéré comme le descendant direct de Amaterasu, la déesse du Soleil et est donc considéré comme indétrônable par la population. Même si le shogun devient le chef du pays à partir de la période Heian (794-1185), l’empereur reste empereur. Cela ne viendrait jamais à l’idée du shogun de devenir empereur. Il a seulement tous les pouvoir politiques.   Quand le shogun est gouverneur, cela s’appelle le shogunat ou bakufu.   Le bakufu était d’ailleurs dirigé non seulement par le shogun, mais aussi par d’autres personnes qui l’assistaient: le tairô (en quelque sorte, le vice-shogun), le conseil de roju (le plus haut conseil qui gère surtout les groupes directement inférieurs et les affaires intérieures), le conseil de Wakadoshiyori (supervisant les gardes du corps du shogun et certaines affaires dans les grandes villes), les metsuke et les bugyô (des sortes de commisaires/magistrat/censeurs). Ils ont aussi fondé une unité militaire d’élite, le Denshûtai, qui a combattu durant la guerre de Boshin (importante pour les fans de Gintama, car c’est dans cette guerre qu’on trouve la plupart des personnages historiques dont sont inspirés nos personnages).    L’ère Edo est donc gouvernée par le shogun, l’empereur n’a qu’une place symbolique et divine. Tokugawa Ieyasu est donc le premier shogun de cette période suivi de plusieurs autres Tokugawa. D’ailleurs, il fut un des trois unificateurs du Japon avec Oda Nobunaga et Toyotomi Hideyoshi.    Comme dans tous les pays, on peut trouver un classement social.

En premier le Shogun  (l’empereur était hors classement car il n’est pas considéré comme humain). Ensuite, on y trouve les Daimyô, ce sont les nobles, les grands seigneurs du Japon. Pendant Edo, il y a trois catégories de daimyô: –shinpan daimyô qui appartenaient à la famille du Tokugawa –fudai daimyô rattachés personnellement au shogun Tokugawa –tozama daimyô qui sont ralliés au bakufu(de force pour certains). 

Puis, en troisième position, c’était les samuraïs, les guerriers. Les samuraïs étaient riches, même si moins riches que les Daimyô, et même au sein de la classe des samuraïs, il y avait une hiérarchie. Dans Gintama, les samuraïs de haute hyérarchie sont dans le Mimawarigumi. Ils avaient chacun des terres avec des paysans travaillant pour eux, enfin selon leur rang. Ils pouvaient tous avoir des noms de famille et avaient le droit de porter deux sabres ainsi que mettre à mort. Ils avaient tous une bonne éducation, ils apprennaient l’art de sabre, mais aussi les lettres (lecture, écriture, histoire) et les arts (musique, dessin, poésie).  On peut d’ailleurs voir un peu comment c’était dans Gintama, quand on voit le passé de Gintoki à l’école. Et on a pu constater à plusieurs reprises que certains samourais, par exemple Takasugi, savaient jouer d’un instrument.  Le groupe après les samuraïs était les paysans, suivi du groupe des artisans, et pour finir les marchands.    L’éducation durant Edo était individuelle. Il y avait des classes (des terakoya) mais le professeur n’enseignait pas avec un tableau, il donnait à chacun quelque chose à faire. Le niveau des cours était assez élevé, puisqu’on ne donnait pas forcément des manuels adaptés aux enfants. On leur donnait des manuels d’adultes qu’on utilise dans la vie quotidienne ou des ôraimono (des compilations de lettres). Cependant, les enfants n’allaient pas souvent à l’école car les parents avaient besoin d’eux à la maison ou dans les champs. C’est pourquoi dans Gintama vous voyez toujours des enfants dehors, c’est parce que l’école n’était pas obligatoire. De plus, l’école était à partir de 6 ans jusqu’à 14 ans environ. C‘est pourquoi Kagura ne va pas à l’école (c’est aussi parce qu’elle est amanto), ni Shinpachi.  C’était les parents qui payaient le professeur (qui était souvent samuraï) et ils payaient en nature (c’est-à-dire avec des aliments ou autres), donc souvent les professeurs n’étaient pas très riches.   La période d’Edo se caractérise par une fermeture du pays. C’est seulement en 1854 lorsque le commodore américain Perry les force, que le bakufu accepte (par peur) de nouveau les étrangers sur son territoire. Une division se créé entre les xénophobes et les partisans de l’ouverture. En 1858, la noblesse plutôt xénophobe reproche au shogun d’avoir cédé à la peur des étrangers et de ne pas avoir demandé l’autorisation à l’empereur. C’est ce qui provoque le début de la chute du bakufu. De longues batailles ont lieu durant cette période, avec principalement, les clans de Chôshu, Tosa et Satsuma qui sont à l’origine du coup d’Etat de 1868 et de la chute du bakufu.  Cependant, ce n’est pas que par xénophobie que ces clans s’y sont opposés, cela faisait un moment que le peuple voulait se révolter contre ce gouvernement trop rigide. De plus, le gouvernement a enlevé les privilèges aux samuraïs, c’est comme cela que se sont créé des ronins (des samuraïs sans maître). Le gouvernement a fait fermer toutes les écoles de samuraïs et interdit le droit de porter un sabre. Même si le gouvernement a essayé au début de subvenir à leurs besoins, ils ont dû supprimer leurs aides financières car l’Etat n’avait pas assez d’argent. 

Sources: Wikipedia, Cours d’Histoire et de Société japonaises

[metsuke]

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[lilyslostinjapan]

May 11- Hakone Day Trip

Today we went to Hakone on a day trip. We took the romance car which was pretty fun and smooth but the AC wasn’t working so it was pretty hot unfortunately. When we got there we got to take the really steep train which was really cool but it took awhile. Then the cable car was also nice but it just felt like another train. I really enjoyed the Gondola actually because it was nice to see everything and take pictures. Once we got to the top of the mountain it was so beautiful and Mt.Fuji looked so good. The whole egg thing was very interesting but they did have soft serve at the top that was made of egg so it tasted like custard. It was soooo good I wish I could have another one. After that we took another Gondola down and got to ride across the port on a pirate ship. It was really nice and so beautiful. The water with the mountains was so pretty I took a lot of pics. Then we went to the shrine that has the famous gate on the water. It was very cool and pretty and I wish I could’ve taken a picture there but the line was too long. Then we took the romance car back home and I was super tired. 

Academic Reflection:

Visiting the Hakone Sekisho really exemplified the points in the article of strict surveillance. The visual displays really immersed me and brought to life what the strict travel regulations were like. The kutsu metsuke would have worked in an environment like the one we were looking at. The practice of the kutsu metsuke exemplified the regulation and ritual that was heavily emphasized in the Tokugawa governance. There were a lot of checkpoints put in places to make sure everything was regulated and we visited one of the Edo period checkpoints that was a place of inspection to enforce these regulations. It is interesting how they wanted to control everything down to even a little aspect such as footwear. Seeing a checkpoint up close was really cool and learning about all of the rules and traditions you have to follow really emphasized these matching points in the article. Additionally, visiting the Hakone shrine was cool and added to the understanding of the travelers because they would likely stop at those kinds of shrines and pray on the way to their destinations. 

[arlequinelunaire]

Danganronpa Showa: Prologue Part 3

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It was when we approached the next school building, the darkness of the cavern again preventing me from discerning that much about it, that we encountered another figure. A student mostly dressed in a white suit save for his black waistcoat, with checkered light-and-dark-brown lines running along his lapels. His swept hair was a dark purple at the crown but grew gradually lighter to lilac then silver as it neared the tips. I was surprised to see him holding a cane and wearing a monocle, one whose rim was shaped like a looking-glass, despite his youth. "Why hello there, so nice to meet another in preparation for gathering at, well, what I assume will be the opening ceremony," Toranosuke strode forth to be first to greet him. The purple-haired boy however just sighed at him and brushed him off. "Ishimaru Toranosuke, yes I know who you are," he said before he turned his gaze to the rest of us, "Benibara, Sakamoto, Enoshima, Schulz, Katsu, I hardly need your introductions. I fail to see why I should divulge much about myself, but for now I'll say that I'm Kirigiri Fuhito, heir to the metsuke-descended Kirigiri Detective lineage, and here at Hope's Peak as the Ultimate De... Detec... Ultimate...". This Fuhito went from cold and composed to caught on his words, before he finally brought himself to say, "I'm here as the... Ultimate Librarian". "Hmm, strange that a Hope'sPeakUltimate would feel that way about their own talent..." Hildegard could only respond to that. "Pfft, says the broad who won't even tell hers," Genpachi muttered back. "I have enough faith in Hope's Peak to assume this is a simple miscalculation," Fuhito said as he gritted his teeth, "That naturally I was to be the Ultimate Detective, and either it will be sorted in due time, or some sabotage is afoot". "Ah, I assure you, Kirigiri, an institution such as Hope's Peak makes no mistakes, at least not when it comes to cataloguing Talent," Toranosuke told him, but those words only sharpened Fuhito's scowl. "Sacre bleu! Then you must rebel against zis injustice and-" proclaimed a girl with scraggy dark red hair, wearing a dark green jacket over white tights, as she drew a needle-like sword. That was before she analysed the situation a little more closely, then just shrugged. "Oh wait, is zis just about the school not saying you had le Talent you wanted, no? Oh boohoo, I thought for a second zis was about somezing actually important". I was worried Fuhito was about to leap at her. "What- You would call being denied recognition as the ultimate detective nothing?" he hissed. This girl however remained unfazed and told him, "When it comes to an aristo like you, I honestly couldn't care. Ah right, I suppose I should introduce le me. Sisters and Brothers, I am le Ultimate Resistance Fighter, Jeanne de Chevalier!" Wait, hadn't France been our enemy? I glanced over Hildegard expecting her to share my confusion, and yet... she looked oddly relieved. Huh, maybe I was worrying too much? Chevalier then eyed the rest of us up; after Fuhito she pointed out Toranosuke and said, "Hmm, you I do not like," then at Genpachi, "You I shall have to keep a watch on," then Momoka, "Hmm, you seem harmless," then at me, "Eh, you're alright I guess," then at Hildegard, "You are suspicious, no?" then lastly at Yudai, "Ah, you are le Ultimate Jailbreaker, no? Good, because I am here to say zat I would've stolen your title when I escaped upon being sent to Japan... had not le War ended before I could". At that boast, Yudai just let out a hearty laugh and said, "Yeah, sure ya could've". At least that explained what she was doing this far from France. I would've asked her myself, but well, like with Genpachi and smuggling I'd worried it wasn't a topic for a first meeting. It was then however nothing less than a tank, if a rusted and mid-repairs one, burst out of the doors to the North Building. All of us jumped back save Chevalier, who just stood there smirking with her arms folded.

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[athoughtfullyautomaticcollection]

Aspiration

A sensei once told me to “stop standing on my skeleton.” He meant that I was locked into position and stiff, so if attacked, I would not be able to react smoothly and effectively. Later, another sensei introduced me to “Enzan no Metsuke”—gazing at the mountains. Rather than fixedly watching an opponent, you observe the larger picture—instead of watching his eyes or the sword, you observe the…

[czolgusszy]

THE METSUKE HAVE REJECTED SANO'S ALLEGATIONS OF CONSPIRACY..........

richard dont you understand. i literally CANT do any work. sano is about to reveal the daimyo's conspiracy of 21 to the tokugawa shogunate's council of elders

[littleeyesofpallas]

Shogun-gawa Metsuke Abare Hayato[将軍側目付 暴れ隼人]: "Shogun's Side Inspector, (The) Raging Hayato"

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