Interesting. Discussion of some documents in which #TokugawaNariaki and close associates discussed possible methods for murdering #CommodorePerry.

"Maybe we'll get him and his men really drunk, and then separate their heads from their bodies."

Unclear to me whether this suggests they ever came anywhere close to thinking of actually doing so, vs. merely discussing the possibility.

#bakumatsu #history #assassination #USJapan #earlymodern #earlymodernjapan

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