Oh, I think I learned that one. Tea health Ki.
Therefore, a samurai living in poverty in the countryside, far from the capital, at the end of the Heian period, before Eisai’s return to Japan, could not possibly serve tea to guests
It’s not normal in all houses like now.
Oh, I see. You learn Eisai’s name in elementary. They teach a lot of First times in elementary books
Torii-san nods.
And since the girl read such books, she finds the samurai in the Heian period drinking tea as weird.
And there’s another problem
Ruriko smiles.
The tea they presented in the theater is green tea, which is common nowadays, but.
Oh, I get it!
Torii-san.
Green tea is established during the Edo period
Indeed, it was matcha back then. I’ve heard of that
Misuzu agreed.
Therefore, they are historically inaccurate. But, only elementary students would care about that
Oh, if I was the one watching that play.
I won’t care about that. Heian samurai drinking tea or something.
They do have the knowledge and so they mind it. That happens often
Jii-chan said.
Once you are aware, you’ll mind it even if it’s fiction. And that’s why the police based productions on television today are struggling, right?
Shou-neechan joined the conversation.
Yes, today’s viewers have a lot of ‘knowledge’ about the police force, so they know that it’s not possible to have an investigator from a fictional police station chasing after a murderer in Shinjuku and shooting him in Shiodome, just like in the past.
Going to a place where another office is in the jurisdiction and shoot your pistol would be too absurd. In Tokyo, each police station has its own Metropolitan Police Department on top of it. you can’t have one police detective investigating crimes over a large area by himself People with such knowledge are too many and they make complaints on TV stations. That show’s portrayal is just weird’ That’s why they can’t get wild anymore
Shou-neechan said.
Although, I have doubts that the entertainment industry can still act like revolver handguns can fire as many bullets as they want or a shotgun can drop the enemy gun without harming them like before
After all, it’s an age where people always look at the minor details. Then, they immediately protest when there’s something wrong. Fearing that, the TV stations have shrunk down
Anyone with a phone that can send emails can easily make protests.
Even without the direct protests, they can write about how wrong their production is over the internet.
On the other hand, many people don’t know a lot because they have no knowledge
Jii-chan?
Children these days use phones commonly, don’t they? That’s why they don’t know about the age where there are no phones. Do you guys know those payphones that you put ten yen in that are red or yellow?
A red phone?
What’s that?
Of course you don’t. I heard this story from a company president during a meeting last time, that the children nowadays don’t the manners from back then
Manners?
You see, back then, I’m not talking about the Sengoku or Edo period. Just 20, 30 years ago
Jii-chan said.
For example, the price tags on store items now . all of them would be neatly printed out in computer text. Some stores even have LCD screens to change the prices immediately
Oh yeah, they do have LCD screens for prices on department stores and supermarket foodstuff and daily supplies
Wait.
Jii-chan, you went to a supermarket?
I did, for inspection. I want to learn from experience how Japan is nowadays
And it’s a lot of trouble each time
Jii-chan’s bodyguard, Shou-neechan, smiled wryly.
It was easy going to high-class department stores, but recently, it’s stretching even to the district shopping malls
I always make sure to look at the grocery sections as it changes in time
true.
I don’t want to be someone who visits high-class stores and then say that I understand how Japan’s economy works.No, let’s return to the topic. About the price tags in stores
Jii-chan continues his story.
Back then, price tags are all handwritten. They write using permanent markers huge and easy to read writings. They even have a class in commerce high school where you learn how to write a price tag. And if you go further back, they use a brush to write price tags Huh, isn’t that a lot of trouble? Besides, the prices in groceries like vegetables change nearly every day
There’s no other way. There were no convenient machines like now. Barcodes don’t exist so you can’t just beep and go. The employee has to memorize the cost of all the goods in the shop
Huh?
That also applies to restaurants. There were no machines where you just push a button back then. The shop assistants have to remember all of the orders in each table and if they don’t bring the orders in sequence, the customers will get angry. You can’t work in a restaurant unless you have the mneme I see.
There were no white shopping bags when buying things, they use brown paper bags or they hand over used newspapers. It was during the latter half of the ’70s when they started using that bag
I see
In trains, you buy tickets from vending machines where you have to push a round button with the fee written in it. The children ticket button is below the adult-use button, you hold your child up to make them press it. The ticket gate staff has scissors cutting off each ticket. That approach differs from each station. Underground trains have no air-conditioning so it was hot during summer. Electricity goes away for a moment in between underground stations and it gets dark Jii-chan said one after another.
Those were common decades ago. For me, it was just recently. But, you don’t know that lifestyle from somewhat a while ago, do you?
Well yeah, we don’t
No other answer to that.
Well, you usually discover the customs from the previous age through movies. If you watch old movies, you’ll see Oh, so that’s how it was before. Television series replicate the customs of their time, but.
Jii-chan’s face turns grim.
The children of this age never have the opportunity to watch old movies, do they? They don’t even watch television anymore. Television series is now just a rerun
That’s.
Well, in reruns, the actors and staff are already paid, in some works, the production company has already disappeared and the copyright owner is unknown.
That’s not the case
Shou-neechan said.
The television stations now want to watch what they make right now. Reruns don’t make achievements for themselves, do they?
Oh, I never thought that they would be gone until the evening reruns of historical plays
Jii-chan sighs.
In the worst-case scenario, they’ll take a drama that’s airing on weekdays at 9:00 and rerun it on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Thinking they’d do it for a little publicity. Anyway, if what they’re making now isn’t a hit, they’re not going to get the recognition they deserve. and that’s all they think about.
What’s left are the simple news shows. They repeat the same news over and over again. They use talents in between the news to fill in time with unimportant news. Anyway, they try to increase their work even for a bit. As a result, television nowadays hardly has any production. At best, reruns of wide-format dramas are probably only made within the last 15 years. Works during the 90’s period aren’t rerun yet It wasn’t until 1996-97 that cell phones became cheaper and more widespread. Therefore, the dramas in the past depict people with status by holding phones
Speaking of which, nowadays, everyone has a phone in the dramas broadcasted nowadays.
In other words, few dramas were broadcast before the widespread use of mobile phones.