/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Until recently, that is the more or less 18th century, Japanese people were a bunch of peasants living in huts, like Hawaii, Tahiti, or any other numbers of islands nations. It's funny how people tends to forget that fact for the reason that Japan is now a very civilized country. They weren't. They were barely barbarians.

What they called "art" was ridiculously bad graffiti without notion of perspective, anatomy or real colours. Their "soldiers" had armours made of wood. Their "literatures" were very small texts, their beliefs were firmly animistic. When the Mongol came, they were so unknown of the laws of war that they would have been utterly destroyed, if not for some luck.

So yes, they didn't have a word for pink, or blue, or green. They didn't need it when they were a bunch of dirty plebs in wooden huts or castle made of bamboo. Are you really surprised op?