As for the portrait of Beethoven in the music rooms of Japanese elementary and junior high schools, many people, myself included, remember him holding a quill pen and with a much more forbidding expression.
- For the statue of Dr. William Smith Clark, the father of Hokkaido’s development famous for the words “Boys, be ambitious,” created by the sculptor Sakatan-dō modeled on Dr. Clark, many people remember him pointing with his index finger, but at present his palm is lightly open with the five fingers slightly spread, and the hand is extended as if lightly grasping the air. - Changes in the composition of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. First, the number of people has decreased from 13 (14) to 12 (13). There was supposed to be a suspicious hooded man at the far right or far left. Because of this, the meaning of 13 being an unlucky number in the Christian world has changed. It was supposed to be the story that the 13th disciple, who sat in the 13th last seat, betrayed. This disciple had a name like Paul or Saul, and later, because Judas betrayed, he came to be treated as the 13th disciple. Another change is that the golden Holy Grail that should have been in front of the central Christ has disappeared.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.