@@Sahhkusa that was precious to watch :) don't worry. you aren't the only ones with this question/confusion. it is a bit annoy how long it last on screen some times rather than just quickly skipping over it.
Hi ! great reactions you two ! The Hairstyles for most of the samurai , shaving their heads is for practicality originally... the helmets were hot.. and uncomfortable.. they wore them ALOT since the period was a violent era of warring states.. it eventually became a status symbol of their warrior cast. I honestly thought the same tho .. thinking some clever old balding man made them all believe it was cool to go bald. the machinations and events and pacing of this show are awesome. i hope you continue your journey ! subbed !
Thank you sooo much for the love!!!!! Totally makes sense with the helmets, though even with medieval times it seemed crazy to trap your head in anything metal… Wonder what they lined it with, if anything? Or is that why the backwards hair nub was on the middle?? To cushion? lol! We’re absolutely loving this show. Please be patient as V is now editing the videos and…It’s a learning curve… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sometimes I envy people with expert knowledge in fields were I am barely novice level. But it must be taxing to not be able to watch something without the background processes in your mind starting to analyse.
Yesssss! From a technical side AND from the actor side, but it goes the other way to where sometimes we get to appreciate it even more because we know just how much work and effort it takes to make things 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Bathing, more of a class issue than a cultural one. In a world with no indoor plumbing or running hot water, it takes a lot of work to put a bath together. Or laundry, or a lot of other things we take for granted because of modern plumbing like sewage removal. Those Japanese peasants aren't bathing much more than Backthorne for similar reasons. He's a poor sailor not an upperclass royal or aristocrat like Mariko. The English bathed but if you didn't have servants people tended to wash basins and wiping with cloths. Another thing that created the non-bathing perception besides Victorian historians warped perceptions carried over to the present was disease causes were not understood. In the 1600s, they understood the correlation of crowding and disease but not the causes for things like Dysentery, cholera, and similar diseases. They assumed bad airs (malaria) created by heat and steam were deemed harmful because they didn't understand contaminated shared water sources were the problem. The Thames was virtually an open sewer by the time its course passed through London in Blackthorne's era.
Exactly!!! We love a fellow history buff!!! As Mulan’s Mushu put it, “I personally like the corn chip smell”! All jokes aside, V always got queasy thinking about the European nobles who wouldn’t bathe for fear of diseases while carting around wigs shaped with lard and animal oils that would just sit there…. And the purses full of posies… and yes the open sewage… thank goodness for plumbing and water treatment plants 🫡😤🥴🥴🥴
@@Sahhkusa I love the show, both this and the 80s one, as well as the novel but they can be misleading about both Japanese and English culture of the era. The focus on all the ways to get killed in Japan easily creates a misconception that there weren't just as many ways to find yourself facing the death penalty in Tudor England or elsewhere in Europe. A lot of folks are shocked by Yabushige's boiling that sailor but boiling was the punishment for murdering people by poison in Tudor England. Let's not imagine women had it a lot better in Tudor England than Mariko had it with Buntaro. I am sure Buntaro would have loved the practice of a Scold's bridle and Leash for dealing with her clever rejoinders.
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