Posted on 07/03/2020 7:08:21 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1865, the Japanese samurai Okada Izo was dispatched by crucifixion.
He was one of* the Four Hitokiri manslayers whose legendary blades coruscated in the Bakumatsu era that marked Japans pivot from an isolationist feudal state, one where samurai were big men on prefectures, to a burgeoning modern power ruled by industry and mass conscription.
The irony was that dinosaurs like the Hitokiri helped bring the asteroid down on their own heads.
During the chaotic Bakumatsu period, triggered by Japans becoming involuntarily opened to the outside world, the emperor long a figurehead marginalized by the shogun entered the political fray under the xenophobic banner revere the emperor, expel the barbarians....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Another example of useful idiots.
“Warriors/assassins like the Hitokiri were wooed by the imperial camp and the promise of a policy that would maintain the purpose and privilege of elite swordsmen. But once power was conquered, the Meiji emperor repaid those knights exertions by doing the modernization thing that Hitokiri types had hoped to avoid.”
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