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FEUDAL JAPAN MANGA IS BACK ON THE BOARD
>In Edo period Japan (1603 to 1868), a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen to a quarter of the total female population. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected and the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chambers.
>>280907430hey this guy's alright after all
>>280878114>>280878140DAMN YOU EARLY-TO-MODERN JAPAN!!!!!!!!
>>280907396>the prohibition on women visiting the Inner Chambers?lol who cares
>executing the secret swain?how barbaric, that's a thing of the past
>feeding the shogun exotic or plebeian food so she doesn't die?Hold your horses, we must stick to our right honorable traditions. Rules are rules you know!
>>280907234Takiyama is a pretty great senior chamberlain
I wonder how he would've fared in the more brutal days of the Ooku
>>280907287These are the words of a woman about to drop dead
>>280907337I like Kazu's courtly hat paired with her Edo robes
>>280907396I've never before heard of this stigma against eating four-legged animals
The Japanese are nuts
>>280907588>son dies >next son is taken away to be raised by another Must suck for the parents
>>280908624Blame tsunayoshi i guess
I blame for everything long lasted in the country to tsunayoshi
>>280907626Yuri girls never sign up for parenthood...
>>280907659She's so excited to be a mother
If only she could've lived a normal, nice life
>>280907337It's crazy that Beriberi was a mystery, if you give a good dose of thiamine to someone that's a fucking mess from it with a pounding heart that probably feels like they're going to die in hours they can hop up the next day and feel fine. You'd think a critical mass of people would associate feeling 100x better after they ate some pig and millet grain soup with a medical intervention.
>>280907948Endlessly positive young woman
>>280908462Now what the hell is she thinking
>>280908229>I have become a parent — I couldn't possibly die until Lord Kamenosuke has grown up...It's over. There's no coming back from a flag like that.
>>280908624eating red meat is a sin under the heavens and will incur ominous karma.
>>280908699tsunayoshi saved japan from an even worse fate if the nation's collective karma worsened.
>>280908073Food preferences and taboos are deeply set, so it kind of makes sense. Imagine being told you had to eat twinkies and crickets to get healthy. I like to think I'd do it, but I'm not going to pretend I wouldn't struggle. And Iemochi is the shogun, so the kitchens are going to know instantly, and from there the castle and the town. It could become a nasty rumout at a critical time.
>two volumes left
I'm not ready to say goodbye
>>280909426exactly. who knows, if not for tsunayoshi the opium wars might have involved japan, too!
>>280909679Her DSLs being framed near-perfectly in a box is doing something for me
>>280909679>>280909730If only "I was jealous of her concubines" was there instead of the animal edicts it would be perfect.
>>280908802he's a bit slow, that's all
>>280910015>She fucked the economysorry to burst your bubble, but there are no records of one such "Sir O-Economy" in the inner chamber chronicles.
>>280908229>>280908252And just a few chapters ago Iemochi was telling Chikako that she had her. :( I'm also praying for her safe return...
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>>280907396Pure retardation. It's amazing japs made it so far
>>280908624Pigs have always been "poor's man" meat until relatively recently. Kings loved their sheeps and cows though.
>no more forsooth, zounds, egads and certes
DROPPED
>>280915322Lol yea what happened to the old fashioned english, i think they gave up.
>>280916018Time passes, language changes
>>280918018Language doesn't change that fast unless you artificially force it. i.e. We are still using the word scrub as slang for a loser for at least 400-500 years now.
>>280918155it's been centuries, O-anon.
>We are still using the word scrub as slang for a loserit was just a wretched poor person back then
>>280918285You don't look at some migrant laborer picking tomatoes in the hot sun and go "damn, what a scrub."
Similarly aristocrats didn't call their inept fellow a scrub for bungling the fox hunt or the archery competition back then.
>>280918409You don't do that in the modern era either, that is a slave and an idiot or jinx respectively. The essence of calling a social failure who is about as bland as milquetoast a scrub has not changed in essence. Only the measurements have.
>>280918265>>280918409it is pretty interesting, this Burton guy describes essentially a scrub and fool as, "They cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table." Replace that with a car and getting laid and you basically have the same description as you would find in the 90's.
>>280908073The swain wasn't even executed when our Lord and Savior Tsunayoshi was at the helm
>>280908683He has a chance to become Shogun though
>>280908624You say it's a stigma, but it was actually a Buddhist practice that prohibited the killing of living creatures, although it was not often followed. Even then, eating beef and horse meat was still considered taboo, because these animals were extremely valuable for agriculture and transportation.
>>280908785As mentioned in this chapter, the strong link between beriberi and dietary habits was already empirically known during the Tokugawa period. However, polished rice is an irreplaceably delicious food for Japanese people, so replacing it with brown or barley rice is difficult in reality. Furthermore, Meiji government bureaucrats who had studied abroad dismissed traditional therapies as lacking a theoretical basis because Westerners considered beriberi an endemic disease. This resulted in prolonged suffering for the people.
>>280908462>>280908488I volunteer to impregnate our lovely Kazu-no-miya!
