A story about a video on Spy X Family that never came to be, the commonly cited “The Japanese Say You Have 3 Faces” Theory, the true history of this “proverb, why citing sources are incredibly necessary, and a ironic trainwreck of a video that had to be rewritten and reedited several times.

I swear to the Lord Almighty this was conceived well before the hbomberguy video

SOURCES:

The “Original” 3 Faces articles/posts/blogs/etc: https://runwaypakistan.com/the3face...
https://thewritepractice.com/threefa...
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Stack Exchange post quoting Rodregius: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/qu...
Shogun by James Clavell: https://shogun.bib.bz/chapterten
Encyclopedia dot com article on Shogun: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/edu...
“Learning from Shogun” by Henry Smith: http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learnin...
“They Came to Japan” an anthology of European reports on Japan, 15431640: fhttps://archive.org/details/theycamet...
THE HISTORY OF JAPAN AS TOLD BY JOÃO RODRIGUES by Cláudia Orvalho: Castelo: https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/2001...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by TS Elliot: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/eliottsp...
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