The Search for the Mysterious Sword "Kotetsu" By now, many are aware of Kondo Isami. The broad faced bull of a man with a sharp, piercing stare. He was the head of the Shinsengumi, a secret police force appointed by...

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Presently it is generally accepted that social status during the Edo period was not completely fixed. A generation earlier, we learned in school that there was a hierarchical system called shi-no-ko-sho (Samurai-Peasant-Artisan-Merchant). But this is now rejected and the word...

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In the modern era, people will tend to eat three main meals a day; being strongly advised not to skip breakfast.  In Japan, three meals a day had become the norm by the Meiji Era (1868-1912), however, in Sengoku Japan,...

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