A fascinating study of one of the darker elements of the crisis that
eventually led to the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the official
restoration of Imperial rule, the use of assassination to eliminate the
political supporters of the Shogunate, and later by supporters of the
Shogun attempting to defend the status-quo. Somewhat ironically the
opponents of the Shogunate got their way, only for the newly restored
Imperial government to destroy the feudal world and with it the Samurai
class
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