konpeito_aji: (sparkle)
Oda Nobunaga ([personal profile] konpeito_aji) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway 2022-12-29 04:03 am (UTC)

"Yes," A giant sparkling beam, ignoring the previous statement except the love part. "I learned from Austria itself. Not that I've gotten to go there yet. I want to. But they sent me a gorgeous white eagle and I danced with some of their best in my quest to perfect the best humanity has to offer." He's exceptionally proud of this, because he's the only one in all of Japan (in his time, and honestly for quite a few centuries after...) who gives the slightest tiniest fuck about such a thing, and it really was a great expense for something so esoteric!

"They couldn't figure out how to bring pipe organs though. It's the most extravagant thing they have, very European, very Catholic church, Luis Frois was going mad with the logistics to bring one for Japanese cathedrals to spread their culture and tie it to the religion. But impossibly risky to deal with bringing all the way just to demonstrate or for homesickness, despite all the pirates in between us and Europe. Even just getting it to seas would have been tricky with bandits!" A laugh. "I said, bring me blueprints, and I will get Mitsuhide or others on it, but even that is apparently very secretive.
Imagine my surprise when the first similar music I finally heard was... piano from Billy Joel." More laughs! "They built it up so grandiose in my head! I thought it would be like a mountain, and cannon fire, an entire army of gongs of different notes, instead it is all plinky and light like a dulcimer. If I'd known I would have told the missionaries to not worry about European instruments, and just steal the countryside's music for themselves and make them better."

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