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What we witness in modernity’s Gensokyo is not merely aesthetic drift, but the erosion of what the Scholastics would recognize as the ratio formalis, the formal principle by which a thing achieves its proper end.
The older characters emerged from a design philosophy rooted in archetypal completeness, where each element served both functional beauty and symbolic purpose. The hat crowned not merely the head, but the entire ontological structure of the character.
Consider: the magician’s hat speaks to mastery over the natural order; the shrine maiden’s ribbon to her mediating role between realms, even the simple beret suggests a certain gravitas and rootedness in tradition.
What we witness in modernity’s Gensokyo is not merely aesthetic drift, but the erosion of what the Scholastics would recognize as the ratio formalis, the formal principle by which a thing achieves its proper end.
The older characters emerged from a design philosophy rooted in archetypal completeness, where each element served both functional beauty and symbolic purpose. The hat crowned not merely the head, but the entire ontological structure of the character.
Consider: the magician’s hat speaks to mastery over the natural order; the shrine maiden’s ribbon to her mediating role between realms, even the simple beret suggests a certain gravitas and rootedness in tradition.
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