The Fair Unknown

Richter & Morten - Armed & Dangerous

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

why?

"you rap about arthurian knights everytime, it's embarrassing"

ok

[after one beer]

Anno Hideki

Long Interview – Part 1

I think that the work that attempts to fill up what is lacking is, in fact, what we call living.

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The TV program that left behind so many puzzles even as it ended, Evangelion. Does Gendo really love Shinji? What are the Angels? And other such questions are inexhaustible, but, of course, what we, as JUNE, want to know first and foremost is why Kaworu and Shinji’s relationship turned out like that. Taking together the PR Manager, Sato, and the one who extended episode 24 to three hours long, Director Anno, this interview first compiles the (confidential) Kaworu and Shinji episode and the parts in which they tell us about the troubles that they had expressing the director’s intention.

[From the previous recording of Shousetsu JUNE of August 1996]

This is the full (sans footnotes which crashed Tumblr) translation from the Japanese original of Part 1 of Anno’s June Long Interview, recorded after the completion of the TV series run. There is another version floating around which is compilation of some of the previous translations posted here regarding the Kaworu Nagisa portions + a retranslation of the Chinese translation of the interview. Translated by Morgan Bauman/moyaofthemist Original Japanese Scans

Edo period women obi knots, fantastic reference chart by Edo lover Nadeshico Rin.

You can see here several obi musubi favored by city women, of all class and status. Novelty knots were a fashion statement, often lauched by star onnagata kabuki actors, and spread by iki fashionistas such as geisha.

For top to bottom, left to right, you can see here:

Chidori musubi (plover knot) ちどり結び

Shôryû musubi (little dragon knot) 小龍結び

Kichiya musubi (Kichiya knot) 吉弥 結び - named after onnagata actor Uemura Kichiya I in Genroku period, who single handedly launched a new type of knots and obi fashion

Koman musubi (Koman knot) 小万結び - named after a kabuki character in play Yakko no Koman

Nagoya obi (Nagoya belt) 名古屋帯 - Azuchi Momoyama/Early Edo era silk kumihimo tied in butterfly knot

Yanoji musubi (arrow knot) 矢の字結び - created by onnagata actor Segawa Kikunojo II. Also found under the name tateya musubi 立て矢結び (standing arrow knot)

Yoshio musubi (Yoshio knot) よしお結び

Mizuki musubi (Mizuki knot) 水木結び - onnagata actor Mizuki Tatsunosuke is said to have first worn this variation of the Kichiya musubi

Rokô musubi (rôkô knot) 路孝結び - created by onnagata actor Segawa Kikunojo II

Karuta musubi (card knot) カルタ結び - created in early Edo period, looking like 3 playing cards side by side

Hitotsu musubi (single knot) 一つ結び - during Edo, was also called darari musubi だらり結び. Note that it differs from is nowadays called darari obi (worn by maiko)

Tate musubi (standing knot) 立て結び - see yanoji/tateya musubi for variations

Bunko kuzushi (unbalanced knot) 文庫くずし

Heijûrô musubi (Heijûrô knot) 平十郎結び - created by actor Murayama Heijûrô III

Sageshita musubi (falling knot) さげ下結び