Tag: art

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Check out the rest of this (very long) tweet chain here: https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1062823813338091520

It is worth the click. 

THIS IS RAD

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@askcommisaryarrick

WHAT!? …I mean this is BADASS but WHAT!?

So they saw the “don’t tread on me” flag and assumed it was because someone had battled a giant snake and won, huh

Well… For context Commodore Perry forced open trade with Japan and they had these weird scraps of half translated American history by 1861 that was very odd to a Japanese mind so they stylized it and did the prints for the book making it more or less the Legends of America.

This is the history they don’t teach you in school

Interesting.

Japan continues to make media using real historical figures, usually their own but they do it to others too (Joan of Arc being a common example). Of course they stylize the shit out of it. Apparently they started very early.