[ SECRET POST #5027 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5027 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What Is Your Favorite Time Period In History And Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Sengoku era Japan because holy shit all the warlords were secretly bugnuts, really good at writing scathingly sarcastic letters to each other, and a literal sandal-carrier rose to become the first great unifier of Japan (Oda doesn't count he died before he could do anything with it). And also everyone was actually gay for each other that's not just a fun reinterpretation of how their relationships and letters rolled out.

The multitude of anime, manga, and game properties that milk Sengoku era for fiction are actually not that far off from reality. Date Masamune has a particularly epic level of "excuse me what the fuck?" surrounding a lot of his actions, letters, and later writings about what went on in his court, but Oda, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, and Uesugi were also varying levels of outrageous and the best part is, most of the information about them survives to this day intact because of the Tokugawa-era lockdown of Japan and the overall interest in preserving history. It's only been just under 500 years but their historical artifacts and writings are more intact than half of what was going on in Europe. We know things, and those things are ridiculous.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Time Period In History And Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I am enthralled with everything you've said here. Are there any good books on this era that capture the amazingness of it?

Re: What Is Your Favorite Time Period In History And Why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still searching for some myself, so alas no recs. I've been mostly bingeing on historian blogs translating various letters, right now I'm knee-deep in a Date blog that I...have apparently closed the link to, shit. I know it was on tumblr so a search is probably easier than not.

There's a reason Sendai is still in love with its founding father, Date Masamune was a bit wild but looked out for his people. My favorite tale so far is still how he had to give his army a list of rules to follow on their march back from Kyoto, which included respecting every town and every person they passed, but rule 5 was basically "don't set the camp on fire again." Yes, again.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Time Period In History And Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for replying! Man this whole era sounds wild. Off to look for some blogs!