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

https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/23413731/

My thanks to Luke Roberts for spotting and buying me this #EdoPeriod #WoodblockPrinting 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 #Ryukyu #Luchu scholar-official #TeiJunsoku 程順則 in 1714, and first published in Japan in 1722.

One of many examples of things introduced from Luchu into #EarlyModernJapan, and a neat thing to get to show in class.