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)

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Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology ...

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