mojave-red:tsutachishio:askcommisaryarrick:fountainstranger:paintmeahero:Check out the rest of this
mojave-red:tsutachishio:askcommisaryarrick:fountainstranger:paintmeahero:Check out the rest of this (very long) tweet chain here: https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1062823813338091520It is worth the click. THIS IS RAD&@askcommisaryarrick WHAT!? …I mean this is BADASS but WHAT!?So they saw the “don’t tread on me” flag and assumed it was because someone had battled a giant snake and won, huhWell… For context Commodore Perry forced open trade with Japan and they had these weird scraps of half translated American history by 1861 that was very odd to a Japanese mind so they stylized it and did the prints for the book making it more or less the Legends of America. -- source link