So I get that people were smaller in general back then, and also Japanese people are not a super-tall ethic group in general, but they drew this guy to look like a fantasy dwarf in samurai armor.
I think that’s partially an aspect of the artist’s style (who’s Angus McBride if I’m not mistaken) - a lot of his figures (even when he’s drawing various Europeans) strike me as really… “stocky”, I guess you could describe them. I feel like part of it comes from how he draws faces, but I dunno, I’m not an art guy.
Japan would have been infinity better off without samurai.
Why is the cloth ration bag a bunch of spheres? Are their rations cloves of garlic or is that just how their rations are stored?
The text commentary says “a long tube of cloth containing a day’s rations of rice tied into individual sections”, so it seems like it’s basically just riceballs. Seems like a pretty small amount for a daily ration though, but I guess you had to make do with what you had, and maybe it would have been supplemented with food that was foraged/pillaged.
My guy out there shooting levy peasants while looking like a bamboo sprout
