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another funny thing about trade during the Edo period outside of Nagasaki is that in addition to the Matsumae clan in modern southern Hokkaido being permitted to trade with Ainu the other ‘gates’ to Japan were the Satsuma clan being permitted to trade with the Ryukyus which the Satsuma had conquered and made vassals and the island of Tsushima being permitted to trade with Korea. The establishment of the Tsushima-Korea trade happened in the early Edo period and after an initial exchange of envoys and Japanese envoys reassuring the Joseon that the Tokugawa were different from the Toyotomi who had invaded Korea and were responsible for overthrowing them and the Korean king was like “Ok, but we’ll still need an apology for all that shit if you want trade to happen”. Ieyasu Tokugawa was fine with Tsushima trading with Korea but the lord who ruled Tsushima knew that there would be no way Ieyasu would send something as humbling as an apology to a foreign ruler especially if he felt his hands were clean of the whole Korean invasion. So what the happened is the lord of Tsushima forged an apology letter from Ieyasu including faking his seal and sent it to the Joseon court. The Joseon court found it acceptable and sent a letter addressed to Ieyasu saying trade will be permitted to resume. Because the Joseon letter was based on the assumption that Ieyasu apologized and also because the style of it clearly looked like it was in response to a letter Ieyasu never actually sent the lord of Tsushima put away the real letter and forged yet another letter this time an edited version of the letter from the Joseon removing any mention of an apology and making it sound like it was part of a brand new correspondence rather than a response to an earlier letter. The Tokugawa fell for this ruse as well and Tsushima was able to engage in trade with Korea after the ruling courts were tricked into thinking they had come to a mutual agreement because the lord of Tsushima had essentially been faking the back and forth exchange with forged letters

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apple trend x tomarry

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Harry and Tom(as a snake?? I don't know, don't ask)

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always so scary to remember catholics actually believe all of that and it's not just a crazy sex thing

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as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

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Top 5 Appalachian Cryptids, From Least to Most Deadly

Mammaw’s Friend from Church - This entity manifests randomly at family gatherings. You know nothing about this woman, her family, her home life, her past, if she is related to you in the slightest. She attaches herself to Mammaw and attends every holiday AND Sunday dinner. The terrifying part? Nobody likes her, not even Mammaw.

Yard Car Infestation - These entities resemble cars, usually models constructed between 1940 and 2000. They randomly manifest in yards in groups of 2 to 50. You cannot remove them or sell the scrap metal. Grandpa has been promising to find a way to dispose of them since 1989. He never will.

Cousin Who Needs Something - Similar to Mammaw’s Friend from Church, this entity is parasitic and memetic. Appears as a cousin you have never met or heard spoken of, communicates through grandmother and great aunts. Always in need of money or goods such as hand-me-down clothes, food or prayers. There is no equivalent exchange. You do not know this person. But grandma insists they need help and they’re your kin.

Brother Billy - Grandma’s pastor from church, allegedly. Like the Cousin Who Needs Something, this entity is always going through troubles and seeking prayers and petty cash. Unlike the Cousin Who Needs Something, you have encountered this humanoid figure, described as a tall balding man with beady eyes and a wife 3 decades younger than him. Encounters with Brother Billy result in a feeling of deep discomfort that lingers even after leaving the church.

Neo-Confederate Asshole With a Gun - The deadliest and most dangerous entity on this list. Often manifests on the porch of cabins when you try to turn around on a dirt road. Also occasionally spotted in populated places like Walmart and Shoney's. Highly aggressive and confrontational. Widespread throughout the South though the Appalachian variant, Neo-Confederate Hillbilly With a Gun, is wilier and known for its hardiness.

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It’s important that everyone understand that, when I say that I “like” a villainous character, what I in fact mean is that I consider them to be both cool and morally praiseworthy, as well as correct in their aims and methods and worthy of emulation by people in the real world. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point.

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Yk being completely asexual aside, Voldemort should be glad he's fictional

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I accidentally derailed a book discussion because the prof asked what we thought about it, and I said “at one point the author says ‘raccoons the size of huskies. which is a seriously big raccoon.”

and everyone started moving their arms to approximate the size of a husky and frowning. and I was like “because huskies are mostly leg, but raccoons are mostly body, so a raccoon scaled that large would be like a bear.” and then the prof said that he liked the ‘raccoons the size of huskies’ line, and tried to move on, and I interrupted again with “but that’s so big!”

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Happy birthday Curiosity

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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destined

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you dumb dumbs don't need AI to come up with ideas, you just need a husband who's had 2 glasses of wine and an innate desire to make you happy.

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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”