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Old 2010-10-10, 17:14   Link #1524
Terrestrial Dream
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Age: 34
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Originally Posted by Tri-ring View Post
The end of the Edo period is said to be the dawn of the new era where Japan ushers into the western world from the east. This was not without resistance and bloodshed where terrorism clashes with the conservative Edo shogunate duels it out.
On one side we see Saigo, Katsura and Sakamoto wanting create a new democratic government with the Emperor as a symbol while the conservative Edo bureaucrats wanted to maintain the status quo.
Shinsengumi was the police force in the brutal Kyoto district where most terror cells operated, seen now as a symbol of the fading era of samurais and Katana clashing duels.
So it would be safe to say that they are the last romanticism aspect of Japan?
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