The reason premodern Japanese hairpins look like earpicks 💅

The reason premodern Japanese hairpins look like earpicks 💅

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▶︎ Hi, I’m Kyota, the author of Amazon Best Sellers [Folk Tales of Japan], [Underdogs of Japanese History], and [Horror Tales of Japan].

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[KPX]

Yup malicious compliance at it's finest, chef kiss.

[eggofshell]

“We are a family of four, good afternoon” was the most BADASS response to that jest ive ever heard 😂😂

[tomato]

The pause in-between singing the soothing Brunosuke Masashi' song and the scolding for wearing too many hair pins, creates gives the dialogue a much necessary drama.

[Ananaskaneli]

Funny thing similar thing happened in medieval Europe. After the black plague when middle class started to form the royalty and highclass got worried when suddenly you couldn't see persons social status just by their clothes because lowly merchants started to have more money than highborn people. So they made laws about what different classes could wear, fabrics, lengths, decorations, etc... But they forgot to limit hats. So lower class started to wear the biggest, most ridiculously decorated hats that they could. For example: Those huge cone hats with sheer silk attached to the top that you can see in drawings of princesses in modern media were actually used, and in many ways they were quite moderate 😂

[dragonbanex]

Wait that's actually badass. I love learning the little ways common folk fought stupid rules of the authoritarian class.

[aadvai]

that elegance in the hand wave at the end lol

[Lolibeth]

No one is a legal eagle like a woman getting around sumptuary laws. Edo women and 15th century Florentine women shaking hands over bending (and breaking) decoration laws.

[AshEndDust]

Family of 4, 2 ears each
4 and 2
Shi and ni... subtle.. very subtle.

[sethwarren]

Similar to medieval sumptuary laws. European nobles were mad that merchants were becoming richer than them so they set rules on the styles and colors they could wear. I always love finding the similarities in disparate cultures.

[LordMoonie]

I used to own a kimono from this time period! It may actually be called something else but the garment was plain on the outside, but had beautiful embroidered silk fabrics on the inside, to hide the fact they were spending money on luxury fabrics! Fashion is so neat ^-^

[songindarkness]

Fascinating! I can’t believe these beautiful hair ornaments made of gold and precious stones are “earpicks”! Love it! 😂

[ckev]

The idiotic thing with any society that bans luxuries is... The more varied trades that exist, the more money flows, the more an economy grows and the more prosperous a nation becomes. What was a luxury one year, becomes commonplace the next as economies of scale and abundance grows. We once thought of paper, spices, glass as a luxury... But as it became more and more popular, technology around it grew until it's now inconceivable to think of those things as being anything but basic things common in any home. 😊

[nardeenrihani]

🎶Seppuku by the fire at night, silk sheets at kimonos all white 🎶
I DEMAND a full song of this

[j_the_kid]

That "good afternoon" with the hair flip was completely diabolical.

[PeoniesAndBirds]

I really enjoy your YT shorts. They are very informational and entertaining at the same time.

[ghibilibibili]

I can't believe they actually were earpicks this entire time, and I wasn't just thinking they looked weird for typical hair ornaments.

[AlexBlack]

I love that their solution was ban the sale of luxuries instead of changing the income to something else even a slight more expensive food(I know there’s probably some tradition to it but like)

[BabalonNuit]

These were referred to as "sumptuary laws". We had them in the West, too. The Roman Church didn't want anyone dressing "above their station". Certain luxuries were restricted, like furs; only luxurious furs could be worn by the nobility; the lower classes had only squirrel and rabbit fur available to them. Men had to be clean-shaven and women had to cover their hair, etc. etc. It is a legend that the free masons (who built the cathedrals) blatantly ignored the church's sumptuary laws, grew beards, wore whatever fur and rich clothing they liked, etc. because they KNEW the Church did not dare to touch them (the cathedral building, remember?).

The Church was furious at this open defiance of the free masons and actually issued a bull (a type of official proclamation meant to be obeyed-or else) commanding the free masons to shave their beards, and STOP wearing clothes beyond their status yadda yadda. The free masons returned the message that not only would they _not_ obey the bull, they ordered the Church to rescind it immediately, or else, the free masons declared, they would go to every cathedral they had built and pull out the keystones, causing the cathedrals to collapse.

The Church was forced to back down, and ever since then the Church has HATED Freemasonry, and has sought to destroy it by spreading evil rumours about it. That is where all the nonsense about "Freemasonic conspiracies to rule the world" originated. It is also a fact that the word "illuminati" is LATIN, and was used by the Roman Church for CENTURIES, long BEFORE Adam Weishaupt came along!

[kyleOWillFixIt]

Did anyone else spend this entire time wondering what an "ear-pick" was?

[DeepseaDumplingfish]

Hello, kind sir! Speaking of the hairstyles, may I request you to make a video about japanense men's hairstyles besides chonmage? It would be very appreciated