#samurai dandy

I used to think that Samurai Dandy was simply the remnant of the "Westerner's Peninsula" that had been cut out of Sei-an. (Western flair: why not?) Turns out that trendy Christian samurai really did enjoy Elizabethan fashion, though, and really did wear those ruff collars, and sometimes other aspects of English clothing design.

I learned this in my Japanese Literature class yesterday, after which my professor showed us this picture, and I had a minor freak-out.