#princess sen

[redsamuraiii]

Joso Senhime Festival by Ibarakai Sightseeing

A festival to commemorate the granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Princess Sen. She was married to Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of Hideyoshi, the Taiko. She survived the Siege of Osaka after her husband, Hideyori and his mother, Yodo-dono or Chacha committed Hara-Kiri to avoid surrender and capture by the Tokugawa.

Legend has it that Yukimura Sanada who served Hideyori, brought her out to safety during the siege before his death, as depicted in the period drama, Tenchijin. There are many legends surrounding her life and she has often been portrayed in  TV dramas, plays, and novels. A tale with all the romantic ingredients that made Sen-hime, one of the most popular characters, about beauty, heroism and tragedy.

Info by : Tsuku Blog & Wild About Travel

[ladies-of-fiction]

Dress Up! Chibi Sen

[neptangel]

[senei]

why save the world when you can be in love and be held by your antithesis gf

[miyakuli]

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[poppinspops]

Made a mood board of bridegt x swan princess

[floralcavern]

‪‪❤︎‬Oh, to have a Ghibli romance❤︎‬

[choccorin]

your knight in shining armour ( HELP ME THE TAGS IN SAKU'S ASK )

sennie. you can't just show me the prettiest boy ever and expect me to be calm.

[tanuki-kimono]

“The imaginary world of Hayao Miyazaki in Aubusson tapestries” project has unveiled a new tapestry today. It’s the banquet scene from Spirited away where Chihiro confronts No-face, and it’s GLORIOUS.

Pictures are from Catsuka and Cité internationale de la tapisserie’s insta. You can also see it here in video (all in French sorry!), 40min has the “tombée de métier” (when weavers cut the warp threads once a tapestry is finished) and 1h08min is when they unveil it.

Aubusson manufacture project is to make 5 full size tapestries from Ghibli’s works using traditional weaving techniques.

They have already worked on Princess Mononoke, finished last year:

But the scenes I anticipate the most are coming, as they are now starting to work on Howl’s Moving Castle - especially Howl’s wizard bedroom :D

They are atm working on the cartons (weaving guide/blueprints):

Spirited Away tapestry will stay exposed in Aubusson for the moment, while Mononoke one will be shown at Opéra de Bordeaux in March, and in Musée du Quai Branly in Paris this summer ;)

[aetherarson]

Sen cause he👍

[bestanimatedmovie]

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What fans say:

Spirited Away:

The animation and music are stunning and it's such a sweet story

It's just so magical and very very pretty. It's amazing all the work that clearly went into animating this movie and it has so many good scenes and moments that I don't even know where to begin.

Great worldbuilding, beautiful and lively scenery, plot is simple but works really well to put the wackiness at the forefront. My favourite scene is where Chihiro refuses to take the gold from No-Face

This movie is a masterpiece. It's gorgeously animated. The story is very strong emotionally. It's breathtaking to watch. Truly to good to put to words.

THE MUSIC. But also the whole story. Chihiro learning and growing. Her strength. Her ability to see and understand the truth. I could go on but I'll leave it at that

It's a Ghibli movie, the VIBES are the best thing. I watched this young enough to be absolutely in love with how the relationship (or really kinda the lack thereof) between Chihiro and Haku is handled. Also, this movie has some of the most delicious looking foods I've ever seen. Nothing has made me crave onigiri more than Chihiro eating two while sobbing over her parents being turned into pigs.

The Princess and the Frog:

Dresses very pretty. And is also one last 2 d*

I love this movie so much because I enjoy how independent Tiana is as a person and I enjoy following her character development as the movie progresses. I also am secretly in love with Prince Naveen he is such a himbo.

*Mod note: Last Disney in 2D. Animation is more than Disney.

[girlfox]

i just think that ahri deserves to be the princess of the foxes and the wolves and the spirits and the forest, a half girl raised by the wilds who leaves the north in search of her true blooded origins. the little beast who must learn through blood and marrow and tears that she cannot navigate the humans' world the way the foxes and the wolves taught her. nature's daughter with one foot in the woods and the other in the human realm, her soul yearning to become like them too. she who doesn't quite fit either, like a mismatched puzzle piece. i think she deserves to discover there's a kind of love and sorrow and hatred in her that is all her own, nestled neatly in between the gaps. it lets her flourish and burrow her roots in the forests she calls home, on the precipice of the humans; where she is the keeper of the wilds and the thread between the realms, ebbing her soul from mortal to animal to spirit. she is one and she is all, the daedal between.

[senei]

get stabbed idiot

[prohibitionprincesses]

Feibo Girl

Shanghai, China

For much of China, the phrase “Roaring Twenties” may have a less jovial meaning. While the U.S. is in the middle of its Jazz Age, China is in the middle of its Warlord Era. The end of the Qing Dynasty has seen China is split into waring fractions called cliques, with those living in the country suffering the worst violence. It’s an especially dangerous time to be a woman.

Fortunately, the Fa family lives in Shanghai, where the wars usually aren’t as close, and women’s rights are blossoming. Heavy with Western influence, the neon-lit city is “the cosmopolitan Paris of the East.” It’s an even blend of old and new. Ancient-looking ships sail past modern skyscrapers, and pedestrians push wooden carts next to buses and trollies. [Link] It’s a good thing the women of Shanghai have more opportunities, because the warlords impose high taxes on their people, and ill veteran Fa Zhou can no longer work. His wife brings in some money sewing trendy qipaos, but it’s not enough to cover necessities and the warlord’s taxes. So Mulan takes it upon herself to save her family from financial ruin.

She first tries getting a job at a cabaret called the Lucky Cricket. Her mother and grandmother help give her the makeover needed to transform Mulan into a winking Feibo Girl—a Chinese flapper. Then, hesitantly, Mulan bobs her hair using a long, sharp family heirloom. But despite her best efforts, Mulan’s clumsiness clashes with the cabaret owner’s inability to listen, resulting in a show that entertains everybody for all the wrong reasons. While the patrons laugh wildly and snark that the performer is “on fire,” the literally inflamed owner loudly fires Mulan.

Ashamed, Mulan sits in the family’s garden, deep in thought. Near an opened window, Grandma belts out to American jazz on the radio. Grandma’s dance session is interrupted by an announcement from Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a political and military leader seeking to reunite China and put an end to the warlords. He is recruiting soldiers for what he calls “the Northern Expedition.” Mulan—athletic, strategic, crafty, and often mistaken for a boy—perks at the announcement.

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po giggle behind their fans as Zongchang boasts of his supposedly enormous masculinity. Meanwhile, Mulan and Shang quietly move to free the captured Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Along the way, they rescue another prisoner, from Zongchang’s kitchen; the Dog Meat General’s name has several possible meanings, but he does indeed enjoy certain canine dishes. Mulan saves an energetic pup from the butcher, and names him Little Brother. Though not the brightest pooch in the word, Little Brother sniffs out Sun Yat-Sen’s holding cell.

Since Mulan has already been bobbing her hair and binding her breasts per Western flapper fashion, all she really needs is a fake name. She enlists in the National Revolution Army under the alias “Ping.” Joining her are a tiny dragon sent by her ancestors, and the mascot from the Lucky Cricket. Training with both swords and machine guns, “Ping” initially causes some mayhem (thanks in no small part to pranks from her comrades). But by the time the troop boards the train out to their first battle, Ping is one of the most promising recruits Captain Li Shang has ever seen.

Control of the railways is crucial to the warlords’ power, and most battles are fought near tracks. While squeezed onto the train and speeding through the country, the soldiers’ songs about girls worth fighting for are punctuated with harrowing scenes of massacred villages. They pull to a stop at a town that’s been burned to the ground, where Li Shang’s father lies among the dead. This is not the work of just any warlord. This was the infamous “Dog-Meat General,” Zhang Zongchang. A particularly ruthless and incompetent ruler, Zongchang is the most feared of China’s warlords. Mulan’s ingenuity leads to the troop’s first major victory, when she creates an avalanche that buries Dog-Meat’s most important railroad—with most of his troops still onboard.

While in the infirmary, Mulan’s true sex is revealed. At first, Shang and the other men don’t know how to feel. But it turns out that a woman may be exactly what they need in their next move against Zongchang. The Dog-Meat General has a harem of 30-50 women, who are assigned numbers because he can’t remember their names. And he forgets their numbers. The guy is just asking for this infiltration. Mulan’s experience at the Lucky Cricket cabaret is now inviable. She drills the men on how to dress and act like attractive ladies, and the operation is soon underway.

Back at the harem, it’s time for the next phase of the plan. This requires the drag-queens to take out some guards, which means another distraction is needed. Luckily, the Dog-Meat General also fancies himself a poet. Mushu and the cricket take over the job of distracting him, by claiming to be his new typists.  Cri-Kee hops from ink to paper, taking down what the Dog Meat General dictates, while Mushu observes. The finished poem reads:

You tell me to do this,

"Poem about bastards" by Zhang Zongchang[b]

He tells me to do that.

You're all bastards,

Go fuck your mother.

Instead of applause, this poem is followed by an explosion of fireworks detonating all around his military base. Mulan has finally destroyed Zongchang’s army beyond salvaging. The Dog-Meat General himself is killed by an officer avenging his father; Li Shang blows his smoking pistol with satisfaction. Shang follows Mulan back to Shanghai, where they begin a new life together in a unified China.

AN: This picture came out looking very similar to the design that Jacquelynn Harris gave Mulan in her Disney flapper series. I assume this is because we both based the outfit on Mulan’s matchmaker attire, and her hair on actress Anna May Wong. The background border is clipart.

On the story: In the old version of my Disney flapper series, I set all the stories in the U.S. Someone suggested that I look at non-Western fashion from the era, and I dismissed the idea, ignorantly assuming that the Roaring Twenties only happened in the West. This time around, I decided to check if anything interesting was happening in China in the 1920s…and wow, what a rabbit hole! So many things fit so perfectly with Disney’s version of Mulan, especially with that bizarre Zongchang character. I’d never personally create an Asian villain with “dog meat” in his name, but the Dog-Meat General is one of those “can’t make this sh-t up” historical figures. Of course I took liberties with how the history actually played out, as Disney often does; but all of the personal traits described, from the numbered harem to the literal dog meat to that poem, were real. And yes, he was killed by an officer avenging a relative. 

To anyone so inclined, here are a couple of incredible time-capsul videos from China in around this time period. 

Up the Wangpoo River to Shanghai (1920s) 

A video with sound and color from 1929

[heartkaji]

haha lol imagine doing this on anon anyways confession; i keep you in my prayers from time to time

i think we should start edating actually !

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, October 23rd:

Charlotte of Valois, French Princess, 1516

Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden, 1636

Peter II, Tsar of Russia, 1715

Helena Cambridge, Lady Gibbs, 1899

Masako Sen, Japanese Royal, 1951

Mako Komuro, Japanese Royal, 1991