Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 42 - “The Girl from Core 3, Part 1” (コア３の少女 (前)), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the uniforms worn by the miners at Cicero asteroid, and Thom's continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Books and papers consulted for the Tale of the Heike Part II - Early Retirement:

平家物語 (The Tale of the Heike), trans. Royall Tyler. Penguin (2012).

Sources of Japanese Tradition volume one, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley. Columbia UP (1958, 2nd ed., 2001).

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople, Susan Wise Bauer, W. W. Norton (2013).

The Cambridge History of Japan volume two, ed. by Delmer M. Brown, John Whitney Hall, Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough, Marius B. Jansen, Kōzō Yamamura, Peter Duus. Cambridge UP (1988).

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219, Delmer Brown and Ichiro Ishida. University of California Press (2021).

Hurst, G. Cameron. “The Reign of Go-Sanjō and the Revival of Imperial Power.” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 27, no. 1, 1972, pp. 65–83. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2383478. Accessed 26 June 2021.

- Wikipedia pages for Emperor Go-Sanjō (後三条天皇) and Emperor Shirakawa (白河天皇).

- Wikipedia pages for tobi trousers (aka Nikkapokka, Nikka zubon) and knickerbockers.

- Jisho.org page for tobi/とび/鳶.

- Blog post "Japanese Construction Worker Fashion" with some historical information, conversations with construction workers, and lots of pictures of construction workers, catalogues, and shops.

- Article from Esquire about tobi pants as fashion.

- Wikipedia page on Imperial Japanese Army uniforms, including photos and period posters showing the knickbocker pants as part of some uniforms.

- Article and photo series on construction worker clothes in Japan.

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