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Here is my final lineup of characters for ArtStation’s Feudal Japan Challenge! 
I won’t spam you any more with this haha. <3 

However, I will continue working on this project on the side, because I really like the characters and the story I came up with. So you might see some poses and expressions, as well as some story moments MAYBE. who knows :F  


cheezy p.s.: Huge thanks to my boyfriend who really helped me with the story and everything, and who has been SO supportive the whole time, that he actually made an ArtStation account just so he could like my project there. I will buy you a guitar one day <3

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Japanese Bridges

“Depending upon the size and nature of the pond, gardens that include bodies of water with islands generally include bridges connecting the islands with the shore and often with each other. In the Heian Period and probably earlier, some of the bridges of the large boating ponds were arching structures of Chinese inspiration, allowing boats to pass beneath the spans. They could be built of either wood or stone (a wooden arched bridge is called sori bashi, a stone version sori ishibashi).

In later gardens, many of which have ponds that are too small for boats, bridges are often simple slabs of stone used singly or in combinations of two or three spans. These slabs are frequently natural, uncut stones, which together with the upright stones that usually flank the ends of the bridge should be considered part of the general "stone aesthetics” of a garden. In some instances, the bridge is actually part of a dry landscape, spanning only a sand or gravel stream. Other bridge types include simple wooden structures (kibashi) sometimes consisting of logs laid parallel to one another and supported on a truss-work frame, and more elaborate covered bridges that sometimes approach the scale of a pavilion.

The Chinese arched bridge (or “full moon bridge,” engetsukyo in Japanese) also survived into later periods and were sometimes employed in the same garden in which rustic slab bridges were found, but most of these have disappeared.“

Himeji Castle, about sixty miles west of Osaka, is one of the best preserved 16th century mid-evil castles in Japan.

Mongol invasions of Japan

The Mongol invasion attempts of 1274 and 1281 were important nation building points in Japanese history. Through these failed attempts came about a stronger sense of Japanese identity as well as setting a boundary on mongol expansion.

The word “kamikaze” or “divine winds” was widely used to describe these events as the Mongol lost the majority of their troops to major storms that swept through the sea of Japan just as the Mongols made their way to the Japanese mainland.

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小牧・長久手の戦い (Battle of Komaki and Nagakute)

The Komaki-Nagakute no Tatakai was actually a series of battles in 1584 between the forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) and the forces of Oda Nobukatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Hideyoshi and Ieyasu had both served Oda Nobunaga and had not previously come into conflict; this would in fact be their only period of enmity. Although this episode of history is most commonly known by the two largest and most important battles, the event is also sometimes referred to as the Komaki Campaign.

Death of the Historical Buddha

Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Unidentified artist
Kyoto, Japan

Imperial Vedette
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