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Hearing the Echoes of the February 26th (2/26) Incident of 1936 in the Age of Trump
26 February, 2021
The 1973 film COUP D`ETAT (KAIGENREI) by Yoshida Kiju stars Rentaro Mikuni as Kita Ikki, the ultra-nationalist provocateur who inspired the failed 1936 coup d`etat of February 26
By Avi Landau
Whenever I look up at my wall-calendar and notice that it happens to say 2/26, I am reminded of the February 26th Incident of 1936, an attempted coup d`etat that took place in Japan, referred to here as the NI-NI-ROKU JIKEN (the Two-two-six Incident). A few years ago, I even went to Tokyo on that day and tried to conjure up in my mind`s eyes the events that took place in 1936 as I wandered near the places where they actually occurred (though back then, before global warming, Tokyo was blanketed in snow on that February day while now it almost never snows at all on the Kanto Plain). My imagination got some help from the fact that I have read extensively on the sub
British designer Edward Crutchley is best known for his uber-luxurious collections, which often reach across continents for inspiration. Case in point: his Spring/Summer 2021 collection looked to Japanese film director Hideo Gosha’s 1986 film
Gokudô No Onna-Tachi, resulting in an assemblage of Ottoman kaftans, prints up-cycled from vintage Japanese kabuki costumes and 1930s silky kimonos.
For Autumn/Winter 2021, however, Yorkshire-born Crutchley looked closer to home and his latest collection, Florizel (the original name of ITV soap opera
Coronation Street), is a paean to Northern England. “I wanted to highlight that British nerve, that Northern Britishness,” the designer explained to
GQ. “In particular I wanted to pay homage to that sort of gritty glamour you only find up north.”