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Blade of the rising sun2/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The courtesans themselves have no blade of their own-not until an unspoiled young swordsman from the mountains of Higo province arrives in Edo. The issuance of a gomenjo or permit for the red-light district is threatening to occasion a momentous power struggle. Yet, despite the onset of peace and prosperity, trouble brews in Yoshiwara, the pleasure quarters of Edo where geisha courtesans count among their clientele numerous bored samurai who are no longer called upon to fight. While the Mikado or emperor retains prestige, he is but a figurehead. The shogun will come from the Tokugawa line for more than two hundred years, right until Commodore Perry’s “black ships” force the far eastern archipelago into modernity. The grueling, century-long battle royal that plunged Japan into “an Era of the Warring States” has finally ended, and the victorious Tokugawa clan rules the freshly-united Land of the Rising Sun. ![]()
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