Talk:Hachijō-jima

So-called Historical Mystery
Five problems undermine the claims made in this section: (1) Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto had no first-hand knowledge of Hachijō-jimi; she's merely reporting a kind of contemptuous storytelling that Big Island Japanese have for "bumpkins" living on distant small islands. (2) The corresponding Japanese article says nothing whatsoever about male and female roles of the islanders being reversed. (3) The key sources are given in a non-standard way. (4) Don't forget: EIS is novelist, i.e. someone who writes fiction. (5) "Historical Mystery" is an unencyclopedic sensationalist title; Solecistic Claim of Gender Reversal would be more to the point. Vagabond nanoda (talk) 06:31, 18 October 2023 (UTC)