Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 43 - “The Girl from Core 3, Part 2” (コア３の少女 (後)), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on a possible inspiration for the name of Chara's new mobile suit, and Thom's continuing research on the Tale of the Heike and it's influence on Double Zeta.

- Wikipedia page for 'grimalkin,' and a reference for passage in Macbeth that mentions 'grimalkin.'

- Papers/articles:

"grimalkin, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2021, www.oed.com/view/Entry/81487. Accessed 29 June 2021.

Raber, Karen (2016) "Response: Monster Pets," Early Modern Culture: Vol. 11 , Article 10. Available at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol11/iss1/10

- Wikipedia pages for bakeneko and nekomata (and the same from yokai.com: bakeneko, nekomata).

- English and Japanese pages for Godolphin Arabian (and an explanation of what a "thoroughbred" is).

- Page about the children's book, King of the Wind.

- On horse-racing in Japan.

- Books and articles Thom referenced:

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).

A Brief History of the Samurai, Jonathan Clements. Little, Brown Book Group (2013).

The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull (1977).

- A high resolution, annotated, zoomable image of one of the most famous scrolls depicting the massacre at the Sanjou Palace (from Princeton University).

- An overview of the Heiji disturbance, featuring high resolution photos from an ancient scroll depicting the events.

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Del