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T. Seifman<p>Interesting. Discussion of some documents in which <a href="https://historians.social/tags/TokugawaNariaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TokugawaNariaki</span></a> and close associates discussed possible methods for murdering <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CommodorePerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CommodorePerry</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;Maybe we&#39;ll get him and his men really drunk, and then separate their heads from their bodies.&quot;</p><p>Unclear to me whether this suggests they ever came anywhere close to thinking of actually doing so, vs. merely discussing the possibility.</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/bakumatsu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bakumatsu</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/assassination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>assassination</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/USJapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USJapan</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>earlymodern</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/earlymodernjapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>earlymodernjapan</span></a></p><p><a href="https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23413731/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.livedoor.com/article/deta</span><span class="invisible">il/23413731/</span></a></p>
T. Seifman<p>My thanks to Luke Roberts for spotting and buying me this <a href="https://historians.social/tags/EdoPeriod" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EdoPeriod</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WoodblockPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WoodblockPrinting</span></a> book, a post-1799 copy of the Rikuyu engi 六諭衍義, a Chinese book of essays on morals first introduced to Japan by the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ryukyu</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Luchu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Luchu</span></a> scholar-official <a href="https://historians.social/tags/TeiJunsoku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeiJunsoku</span></a> 程順則 in 1714, and first published in Japan in 1722.</p><p>One of many examples of things introduced from Luchu into <a href="https://historians.social/tags/EarlyModernJapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EarlyModernJapan</span></a>, and a neat thing to get to show in class.</p>
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