I’m using my gold order to unlock Yoko Taro
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Here is the thing, every Asian country and to an extent different regions within the same country express this differently. The Chinese and Japanese have rather different interpretation of what Confucianism is. For China (Mostly talking about the southern regions, as that is where I hail from and thus and am most familiar), it is not the personal possessions of an ancestor that matter quite as much as the memory, ideals and beliefs of the person. For Japan especially post-Meiji restoration Japan, yes there is a bit more emphasis on possessions of ancestors, but not quite as much as you think. The early variants of the Gunto were often a family sword that had it’s original handle and hilt removed, and replaced with that of a Shin Gunto’s. Don’t get me wrong, family possessions were definitely held in a high regard, but they were not above “reusing” and “repurposing” their families old trinkets.
You know, I would be completely fine with something both cultural and historically appropriate, such as a (Good Luck Flag - Wikipedia) or similar scarf.
But samurai mask just makes me cringe and rant at the same time, since even if someone was from a samurai family in ww2, such soldier would rather seppuku’d himself with a rusty spoon, twice, before attaching his ancestor’s mask on a tank and risking it being captured by the enemy.
Again, you don’t appear to understand how such things work. Again, going back to the Gunto, many effectively defaced those blades to fit military standards, and then carried them into battle. Yes they would have preferred death to it falling into enemy hands, but they also thought that those blades would guide them and bring them victory. I can’t say this happened, because Japanese tanks don’t have many photos of them outside of parade formation, production or in the prototype stage, but it is certainly possible that one person mounted a family mask onto their tank because they believed that it would also guide them like many thought their swords would. Not saying it happened because I don’t know, but it certainly is possible within the mindset of the Japanese in that period. You might want to read up a bit more on how different Asian cultures interpret the Confucian tenant of “respect your ancestors”.
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Again, the best impression I have of the Japanese culture from the Japanese people I’ve spent time with and shared apartments with, is that you never ever take your family valuable and put it in danger.
Especially not something belonging to a samurai clan.
Agree and As i posted up, in thath epoch a father wo send his son in war probably gonna give hime something special, is much more likely to give a precious family heirloom used in “war” by their ancestors to have their ancestors watch over and protect him, and this can be see in all nation
Then why did they convert their family swords into Guntos and then take those into battle? I’m not saying that modern Japanese arn’t like that because most are from my experience as well, however we are talking about modern Japan, we are talking about Imperial Japan, where such things are diffrent.
Small decorators are far from the worst offenders, even the highly unlikely ones. People have been known to put all sorts of seemingly out of place things on combat vehicles.
There are some great examples of the worst offenders above. The system needs some limitations, I think. Or at least it needs a way to hide some of the worst clownery.
no, the family sword/armor is not a hood ornament and would not be randomly stuck on the outside of a vehicle. it is incredibly disrespectful.
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