Brašna’s Reviews > Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki > Status Update
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"... There was even a folk belief that “if one looked up at the emperor one would be cursed, or . . . one’s eyes would be crushed.”[...] In their confusion, loyal subjects sometimes stripped naked at the sight of their divine emperor or ventured out to see him in transvestite dress." 2/2
— Mar 14, 2022 09:28AM
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Brašna
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skipped the Ogai section (seems interesting but i need to write my thesis on Soseki)
— Mar 15, 2022 08:28AM
Brašna
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"It is important to remember that the emperor was also in a liminal state.
Officially divine, he was adopting many of the attributes of ordinary humans. [...] The emperor’s subjects, who made sure that they were never spatially in a position literally to look down upon their descended-from-the-clouds ruler, must have been quite bewildered... 1/2
— Mar 14, 2022 09:28AM
Officially divine, he was adopting many of the attributes of ordinary humans. [...] The emperor’s subjects, who made sure that they were never spatially in a position literally to look down upon their descended-from-the-clouds ruler, must have been quite bewildered... 1/2
