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How about umeboshi?
Benign when it’s just a matter of taste 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子(Teishu no suki na akaeboshi;“The master’s favored red hat”) Definition: When someone with power (e.g. the head of a household) has some odd or nonstandard tendency, everyone under them has to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, Confucianism, Eboshi, 赤烏帽子, head of household, patriarchy, when in Rome, whimsy, 同調, 亭主
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