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[[File:xena in japan.jpg|link=Xena: Warrior Princess|frame|What do you mean, it's unrealistic? She has a [[All Japanese Swords Are Katanas|katana]], doesn't she?]]
In real history, Japan had many periods with their own distinct politics, mindsets, and manner of dress. But in [[Hollywood History|Hollywood]], Japanese history is pretty much one long indistinct period filled with pagodas and geishas in strangely easy-to-remove kimonos, where [[Samurai]] and [[Ninja]] roamed the land chopping each other up with ''katana'' and ''shuriken'' at the slightest provocation. This is the land David Plath called [http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/Learning_from_shogun_txt.pdf Jawpen] -- "this place of which so many Westerners have ''jawed'' and ''penned''", a country "made up of traditional Japanese parts ... invented and assembled here in the West for domestic consumption."
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See also: [[Anachronism Stew]], [[Hollywood History]]. The fantasy equivalent is [[Wutai]].
Popular tropes from this time period are:
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* [[Seppuku]]
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]
(Western) works that are set in this time period include:▼
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'' does this better than most—Stan Sakai was born in Japan (though he moved to Hawaii at an early age), grew up watching [[Jidai Geki|chanbara movies]] and his comments in the back of the comic book collections show that he has indeed done research, and [[Shown Their Work|it shows]].
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