Talk:千本桜 (Senbonzakura)/@comment-86.245.26.248-20181130200601/@comment-11501835-20181210174723

Hello,

The "rising of the middle class" and "the militarization of the country" are not mutually exclusive, it's not one or the other. What exactly ハイカラ(high collar) alludes to can be referenced from Wikipedia (Japanese), but what I pick up from this is 西洋かぶれ(Infatuation with the West). If it's deemed to have militaristic undertones - I still believe that the word "white collared" (and West) vaguely alludes to the concept of uniforms, ambition, etc. For Japan at the time, Anti-West is Anti-Military and invasive governments, the whole concept of a large, standardized, and unified military is very Western. In that sense, you can even say that "infatuation with the West" is synonymous with chauvinism, in a fit of irony

Secondly, I would like to avoid making any connections where there explicitly isn't one - The "sengoku musou, ukiyo no manima ni" are separated lines, to add none of them are adjectives/compliments of each other, they are completely independent. The word 随に(Manima ni) can be referenced from a dictionary. But it doesn't mean "as is", if it was it would be something like "浮世の如く”(Akin to a fleeting world). From what I pick up, it's synonymous with "as it commands" or "do as it does".