Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her "The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman", written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called "F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)", which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko's interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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Very good helmet. I slightly prefer the Sallet, but they're similar and very close in my ranking.
Sallets are also extremely cool
My favorite helmet standard is ECE 22.06, because it's an improvement on the already very good ECE 22.05 which also includes testing for rotational protection.
Those ones with the spikes that look like a cool mohawk haircut they sell at Walmart
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There are a lot of good ones but I'm partial to the GEN1 Mark VI, the GEN1 Commando with the visor, ODST/Firefall/Air Assault, GEN3 Mark V Zeta and GEN3 Mark VII
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Modern sports helmets are also very cool.
roman ridge types, i like the intercisas with ear-holes but most of them are neat. what's important is that they were designed & produced in a very unique way, in state controlled arms manufactories. they were cheaper and simpler to produce than artisan-made, but the central ridges and nasals were improvements in protection from earlier gallic-types. all fabrica-made helmets were additionally silvered or gilded to make them more durable against corrosion, it's why there are many well preserved examples even though they were made out of iron--well also they made hundreds of thousands of them
Very good helmet. I'm not totally sure if it's accurate, but I heard that the central ridge was a reinforcement in response to fighting the sica and falx of the Thracians.
those are actually different, late 'gallic' types were reinforced with bands over the top due to experiences against the falx in dacia, but these were just on top of traditional one-piece hammered bowls---making those late designs even more elaborate and expensive. in ridge helmets the ridge is integral to the construction, the 'bowl' now separated into 2-4 pieces attached to a ridged frame. stronger and lending itself to division of labor in construction process (we don't really know that much about workloads in the fabricae, but it's obvious one craftsman wouldn't produce a helmet start-to-finish on their own).
these later ridge helmets are associated with 'eastern' or 'steppe' influence because the earliest evidence is from Dura Europos but i think it's kind of cringe to pretend we know where things are 'from' based on very sparse evidence. ridge helms could well have been iterated, or influenced by the falx-ridge, but we have generally very little information on the Diocletian army reforms (some people even blame them on Constantine), nevermind the process that produced the semi-standardized late roman armory
Gotta also give props to the WWI Brodie Helmet, a modernized kettle helm that is probably the most fashionable version of it.
Illyrian Type IV
Absolute classic
Gonna give an additional shoutout to the Boeotian and to the variety of later semi-conical helmets of first-millenia Europe.