tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post7718534395525330766..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: The Wind Rises: Marriage in the Shadow of the StateBill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-50930216292647023452015-12-05T14:00:31.455-05:002015-12-05T14:00:31.455-05:00Yes, boundaries all over the place, not the least ...Yes, boundaries all over the place, not the least between one scene and another.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-20423556206592689992015-12-05T05:58:10.158-05:002015-12-05T05:58:10.158-05:00O good stuff. And your mention of boundaries I thi...O good stuff. And your mention of boundaries I think is perceptive--boundaries are a key theme in this film. Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-44857332913185931232015-12-01T14:52:02.817-05:002015-12-01T14:52:02.817-05:00Thanks, Patrick. Marriage as family alliance, of c...Thanks, Patrick. Marriage as family alliance, of course, was once the norm in the West as well. It was the norm in Shakespeare's time; that's the background against which <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> played. It didn't disappear in a sharp fashion; these things never do. But it was in eclipse by the time Jane Austen was writing. And she was writing a half-century before Perry landed in Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-15563856287995739222015-12-01T10:09:11.256-05:002015-12-01T10:09:11.256-05:00This subject is detailed and nuanced, and such a p...This subject is detailed and nuanced, and such a part of the Japanese culture for so long that Miyazaki didn't have to parse it in such depth. For those of us on the outside, however, there are some things we need to know.<br /><br />The current Japanese system of solemnizing marriages was put into place in 1635, during the early Tokugawa, under the name "terauke-seido". It had the Patrick Drazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443293064318887299noreply@blogger.com