Even now... My dad does the same thing too, but I'm not really interested in history—well, some parts of history are pretty interesting, like the Kansei Reforms of 1787.
[ Hmm, what poem should he do... He'll just explain idly as he figures that out, glancing up every so often as he's naturally drawn to trying to work on this sketching business. ]
Color printing using woodblocks had been discovered about twenty years before that and grew into a style of graphic novel that's really similar to our modern day comic books... Gesaku. They weren't too popular with people in power though, since they exposed a lot of moral issues with politics and the like~. So in 1787, the Kansei Reforms started, and gesaku was banned, and its practitioners were punished, too. A lot of other reforms came afterwards too, until 1793, to try and help save the sinking ship that was the Tokugawa government's financial and moral standing. [ A beat. ] They sort of helped, at least as a temporary measure, but they ended up gradually being undone anyway...
[ ...ah, he knows ♪ ]
Sorry for the impromptu history lesson... I'm used to talking— well, not in English, but talking. I thought of a nice poem to recite too, so please bear with me a little longer...~ [ Ahem. ] "Winter's sharp breezes cannot compare to the warmth of your heart by mine. Your smile, tinged pink with cold— The snow falls, and so do I."
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[ Hmm, what poem should he do... He'll just explain idly as he figures that out, glancing up every so often as he's naturally drawn to trying to work on this sketching business. ]
Color printing using woodblocks had been discovered about twenty years before that and grew into a style of graphic novel that's really similar to our modern day comic books... Gesaku. They weren't too popular with people in power though, since they exposed a lot of moral issues with politics and the like~. So in 1787, the Kansei Reforms started, and gesaku was banned, and its practitioners were punished, too. A lot of other reforms came afterwards too, until 1793, to try and help save the sinking ship that was the Tokugawa government's financial and moral standing. [ A beat. ] They sort of helped, at least as a temporary measure, but they ended up gradually being undone anyway...
[ ...ah, he knows ♪ ]
Sorry for the impromptu history lesson... I'm used to talking— well, not in English, but talking. I thought of a nice poem to recite too, so please bear with me a little longer...~ [ Ahem. ] "Winter's sharp breezes cannot compare to the warmth of your heart by mine. Your smile, tinged pink with cold— The snow falls, and so do I."