Toritsu Mizusho! ~Reiwa~ (EP2) (Patreon)

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NOTES:

• Kentōshi - mission to Tang China, represents a lens for examining and evaluating the relationships between China and Japan in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries.
• Ono no Imoko (小野 妹子) was a Japanese politician and diplomat in the late 6th and early 7th century, during the Asuka period.
• Kenzuishi - The kenzuishi, literally "ambassadors dispatched to Sui", were formal missions to China organized by the Imperial Court in the early seventh century, for the purposes of trade, and in order to learn about, adapt, and adopt Chinese technologies, legal systems, political systems, and the like. After the fall of the Sui dynasty, the Yamato state continued for roughly two centuries to send missions, now called kentôshi (lit. "envoys dispatched to Tang") to China (now under the Tang dynasty).
• Heian period (794-1185)
• Ono no Komachi (小野小町) was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the six best waka poets of the early Heian period. She was renowned for her unusual beauty, and Komachi is today a synonym for feminine beauty in Japan. She also counts among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
• Inugami no Mitasuki (犬上御田鍬) was one of the last Kenzuishi.
• Shinsengumi - The Shinsengumi was a special police force organized by the Bakufu during Japan's Bakumatsu period in 1863. It was active until 1869.

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