Talk:Katsushika Hokusai/@comment-27179371-20180103125324/@comment-32879369-20180103195624

I don't know why you were expecting something different, they lived in the most secluded period of Japan History, the Edo/Tokugawa period. She addresses to Abigail as barbarian, which immediately made me think of 尊王攘夷 (sonnō-jōi). The irony of this is that Salem sent a ship to Japan in 1800, the Ship Margaret, built by Retire Becket, below the House of The Seven Gables, it was a frustrated attempt to establish a commercial relationship using opium (Nice Japan huh? You didn't want to be the "New China" lol).