[ HE DOESN'T WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE STUDYING HISTORY... but some time between then and now, he's remembered the year his blade was forged and his internal crisis steadily grows. not quite a thousand years old, but pretty darn close. ]
Most of the books I've found at the library were long and concentrated around one era. Where's the dummy's guide to Japanese history, so that I can see what works?
[ the pain of being an old sword... he'll just have to see which centuries spark initial memories. but like a true millennial that's been confronted with an unfamiliar term, he types it into his phone and skims the wiki page that follows, reading out loud the important-looking words that follow. ]
Let's see... that's the mid-1850's, right? The end of the Edo period, pro-imperialists, Shinsengumi...
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Most of the books I've found at the library were long and concentrated around one era. Where's the dummy's guide to Japanese history, so that I can see what works?
[ the pain of being an old sword... he'll just have to see which centuries spark initial memories. but like a true millennial that's been confronted with an unfamiliar term, he types it into his phone and skims the wiki page that follows, reading out loud the important-looking words that follow. ]
Let's see... that's the mid-1850's, right? The end of the Edo period, pro-imperialists, Shinsengumi...