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You can hardly call kamikaze a storm in a teacup ... "
Kublai Khan

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101


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“A storm in a teacup” is an English idiom that refers to an event that’s been exaggerated out of proportion with its truth. It means people are very upset or annoyed about something that is not at all important and will soon be forgotten. The phrase is not as common as it used to be in the 17th and 18th centuries, but it is still used today.

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The kamikaze (Japanese: lit.'divine wind') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan. These fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. Due to the growth of Zen Buddhism among Samurai at the time, these were the first events where the typhoons were described as "divine wind" as much by their timing as by their force. The latter fleet, composed of "more than four thousand ships bearing nearly 140,000 men", is said to have been the largest attempted naval invasion in history whose scale was only recently eclipsed in modern times by the D-Day invasion of allied forces into Normandy in 1944.In popular Japanese myths at the time, the god Raijin was the god who turned the destructive kamikaze against the Mongols. The name given to the storm, kamikaze, was later used during World War II as nationalist propaganda for suicide attacks by Japanese pilots. The metaphor meant that the pilots were to be the "Divine Wind" that would again sweep the enemy from the seas. This use of kamikaze has come to be the common meaning of the word in English.

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Kublai Khan
Kublai(23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), a grandson of Genghis Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder of the Yuan dynasty of China and the fifth khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.