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Question about Korean superstition/taboo...
I seem to recall that there's a Japanese taboo against wrapping the kimono with the right side over the left, as that's the way it's done on the dead. Is there an equivalent superstition/taboo in Korea?
Because I'd like to know, if a Korean person saw this man, would they twig that something was up by the way he wears the right side over the left, or would it not matter?
And now to figure out what to go out and get for dinner. :P
Because I'd like to know, if a Korean person saw this man, would they twig that something was up by the way he wears the right side over the left, or would it not matter?
And now to figure out what to go out and get for dinner. :P
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I got xxxHolic 11 yesterday and read it, and despite me having read these chapter both in scanlation and now in translation, and despite KNOWING that you don't go into a traditional Japanese house with your shoes on, I totally missed that the girl who's ticked off at Yuuko because her solution isn't working runs right into the house wearing her shoes until the notes in the back pointed it out.
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I always read the notes at the back, and have read the volume twice, and that has escaped my notice! (Though it probably escaped my attention after the stuff in the back because of everything else that goes on in xxxHolic/Tsubasa.)
But then, it's Clamp! We're allowed to not notice little things!
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I've seen several period dramas where the clothing didn't as obviously "have" to be tied that way, but the fact that it does have to be tied that way seems to encourage the idea that there may be other overlap.
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The person in question isn't human, although he's more-or-less passing for one. What he is hasn't been revealed yet in the English-language versions. But I suspect the clothing might be significant somehow, although the characters never comment on it other than "old-fashioned clothing" - in this one (http://www.magatsu.net/pic/antique-03.jpg) and this one (http://www.magatsu.net/pic/antique-04.jpg), the closure is on the left side. In this one (http://www.magatsu.net/pic/antique-02.jpg) I see that the soul collector picture has the closing on the left also, so maybe it's a non-human thing? Unfortunately, googling for "korea(n) soul collector" has been utterly useless and I don't know the Korean term for it. *sigh*
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I do know that the closure used to be on the other side and then they switched over, I think in response to Chinese custom filtering into the country, or something.
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Huh. SO maybe it's not that he's wearing old-fashioned clothing, it's that he's wearing old-fashioned clothing? Hm.
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Was it ILL?
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Link to my post: http://oyceter.livejournal.com/721845.html
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Or maybe he's just eccentric. XD
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Hmmm. It's so hard to say, because we're just starting to get hints of what role Mr Yang is going to play. Spoiler code in case anyone reading this hasn't read the four volumes out now: The Antique Gift Shop of the title is owned by a young woman who is heir to a shaman and has shamanic powers herself,. but who wants nothing to do with that world and denies that it exists. She majored in "Science" at college. XD Her grandmother said that if she could sell all the old antiques they had, that she'd support her granddaughter's choice.
Mr. Yang showed up as the only applicant for the position of shop assistant, and it's shown fairly early on that he can see the spirit-forms of the objects, and occasionally when things get out of control for customers who buy the objects, he steps in and fixes things. He says he hates humans, although he seems to care for the "Science!" granddaughter. In the most recent volume, we go into the granddaughter's childhood, where she was enthralled by the ghost of a small boy at one point, and we see Mr. Yang talking to the grandmother - he appears to be some sort of ancestral deity/spirit/whatever. I think he's bound in service to the family, perhaps? I don't quite remember the details and the manga is in a box in the garage right now. XD
So ... that mostly means I dunno. XD Maybe the ext volume, which is supposed to come out in August, will tell us something more.
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First of all, that's a man?? *g*
As far as I know, every single Hanbok jeogori (the top/jacket with the sharp white collar you usually see in Korean attire) I've ever seen has fastening mechanism that makes it go left over right. Like various people have said, it's not like kimono where you can wrap it in either direction. There is usually a little click button sewn near the fastening so the left side is meant to go over the right -- and the collar isn't symmetrical, but designed to accommodate this fact. Of course, the only hanbok design I'm familiar with is the one from the Chosun Dynasty and for all I know, they wore their tops differently in dynasties older than that. Also, I've not heard of any particular taboo associated with wearing the top the wrong way, but then, the tops just are designed to be worn left-over-right.
I don't know who drew the picture -- is it possible that the artist just got it wrong?
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Others have mentioned that before Tang China started to influence Korea, they wore their clothing fastened the other way than today.
So ... still a mystery. Hrm.
Thank you!
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