First to industrialize amongst their neighbors. And mechanization of rice harvesting is a very late invention.
As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
First to industrialize amongst their neighbors.
The OP is still misleading to make his point.
As is, for that matter, lewd octopus drawings, which date only to the 19th century.
Most famous example from 1814 (NSFW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman's_Wife Although I bet that for a popular artist to be able to publish this openly, it probably means it was already floating in the culture before. The article mentions earlier netsuke, but without dates and the sources are books.
I guess it’s just a mean way to say soften to adapt to local taste. It may also be to appeal to racist people who don’t believe cultural mixing is positive. It’s about Japanese curry. Japan appropriated a lot of other foods, for example breads from Europe and did their own versions, it’s rather fun. Their word for bread is “pan” パン, it comes directly from Portuguese (also same in Spanish).