Samurai Assassins: Dark Murder and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868 by Romulus Hillsborough

Samurai Assassins: Dark Murder and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868

Romulus Hillsborough

224 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The Japanese word for assassination is ansatsu, “dark murder,” and its significance in the samurai-led revolution that was the Meiji Restoration, by which the shōgun’s military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868, ...

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