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Can you elaborate on the impressionism stuff and how Koizumi Yakumo influenced it? It’s quite interesting.
ZUN definitely had a self-orientalising vibe going on, especially in the past, with Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Eastern and Little Nature Deity, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, Oriental Sacred Place etc. Yet at the same time it feels very Western, perhaps because of the Japonisme influence.
It really adds to the “otherworldly” feel of Gensokyo and, strangely enough, gives me a bit of nostalgia for this place I’ve never been to. Maybe the esoteric anons were right after all