The nominal head of state and the institution that governs the country are still the emperor and the Kyoto court.

But the actual people in power and the institutions that manage the country are the generals who conquered the barbarians and the shogunate in Kamakura.

Since then, the shogun has become the de facto emperor of Japan, and the title "General of the Conquering Barbarians" has also become a title that represents the world's supremacy, and countless careerists want to grab it.

The Kamakura shogunate only lasted for more than 100 years (1185-1333). This period of time when the Kamakura shogunate ruled Japan is called the "Kamakura period".

After the Kamakura shogunate weakened, the imperial court led by the emperor once tried to regain the power of the country, but failed. The power of the country was taken away by another samurai group, the Ashikaga clan.

The Ashikaga clan destroyed the Kamakura shogunate and established the second shogunate in Japanese history in the Muromachi area: the Muromachi shogunate. They took away the official position of "Conquering the Barbarians" and national power from the Genji, and the emperor and the court continued to be mascots.

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The period when the Muromachi shogunate ruled Japan is called the "Muromachi Period" (1336-1573)

Due to the special political system, at the end of the Muromachi period, tycoons from various places rose up and rebelled, and Japan entered an unprecedented era of war: the Warring States Period (1467-1603).

This is a troubled time when princes from all walks of life sing their songs and others come on stage, and national hegemony is fought for by you and me.

In the end - the one who had the last laugh was the Tokugawa family.

A samurai named Tokugawa Ieyasu successfully unified the country in 1603, and then established the third shogunate in Japanese history: the Edo shogunate in Edo (today's Tokyo).

The title of General Conquering the Barbarians thus fell on the Tokugawa clan.

And this is also the era Aoto is currently living in - the Edo period ruled by the Edo shogunate.

By the Edo period, where Aoto is currently living, the shogunate system could be said to have been perfected to near perfection.

At this time, Heian-kyo had already been renamed Kyoto. The emperor and the imperial court still remain in Kyoto, but they have become a complete mascot and have no real power at all.

To put it simply - Japan now has two governments: the imperial court in Kyoto and the Edo shogunate in Edo.

The head of the Kyoto court was the emperor, while the head of the Edo shogunate was the general who conquered the barbarians, inherited from the Tokugawa clan.

The former is the mascot and the nominal head of state, while the latter is the real ruler of Japan now, the real "Emperor of Japan".

Aomori didn't know Japanese history, and he didn't know what year AD it was now, but based on the memory of "Original Tachibana Aomori" he estimated that it was roughly the middle to late 19th century.

Because seven years ago, the American steam fleet opened Japan's doorstep.

Since there was a steam fleet and there was invasion by European and American powers... then the time is probably the middle or late 19th century.

Not long after the establishment of the Edo shogunate, in order to ensure the stability of the country, the shogunate issued an order to isolate the country. Japan then entered a state of isolation, maintaining contact only with China, North Korea, and the Netherlands.

Under the lockdown order, Japan spent more than two hundred years of peace.

Until...seven years ago, in the sixth year of Kaei (1853), Commodore Perry of the United States Navy led a fleet to knock on the door of Japan.

Because the fleet brought by Perry included black steam battleships, people called this incident the "Black Ship Incident."

How can Japan, which is still in ancient society, be a rival to the United States, which has already been baptized by the Industrial Revolution?

Due to the despotic power of the United States, Japan was forced to accept the "Japan-U.S. Goodwill Treaty" of the United States.

The door to Japan is now open.

The "Black Ship Incident" had a great impact on the shogunate officials and the people.

Some people have clearly seen the gap between Japan and overseas powers, and propose to learn from the advanced systems and technologies of the Western powers, just like the Eastern powers that faced them thousands of years ago. They demand "reform" and learn from the foreigners to learn skills to strengthen themselves.

However, the number of people in Japan who currently have this concept of "learning from the West" is pitifully small.

The "lockdown order" that has lasted for nearly 250 years has made Japan, from meat eaters to ordinary citizens, narrow-minded and arrogant.

Facing the incoming Western powers, the most popular and popular trend among Japanese people at this time is that these foreigners are all barbaric barbarians, and they must be expelled without leaving a trace!

Fight! Fight! Fight!!

Those who advocated driving out all the Western powers used the slogan of "repelling the foreigners". Therefore, these people who advocated "repelling the foreigners" were collectively called the "repelling the foreigners".

The idea of ​​"rejecting the foreigners" is the most mainstream idea now, bar none.

The "anti-foreigners" faction who advocate driving foreigners out of the country are currently the undoubted majority, while those who advocate peaceful coexistence with and learning from the great powers are all in the minority.

Although those who advocate "repelling the foreigners" are collectively called the "repelling the foreigners", the "repelling the foreigners" are divided into many different schools of thought.

Some people have a more moderate view and advocate driving away Westerners through peaceful means.

However, most of the current "anti-barbarian factions" advocate using force to expel all the great powers headed by the Americans.

In the past seven years, as more and more foreigners have set foot on Japanese soil, some people who advocate using force to repel the foreigners have become more and more radical and extreme in their ideas.

To this day, there is even a voice among the "anti-barbarian faction": those who admire the West, think that Western things are good, or work for Westerners, are all national traitors who admire the Yi and Mei Di! These national traitors should also be killed

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Such ridiculous and extreme ideas are gradually spreading, and more and more people are following them.

The three samurai who assassinated Qingdeng just now were members of the "radical anti-barbarian faction" with such extreme ideas.

Why do people from the "radical anti-barbarian faction" target Qingdeng?

The reason is that "Original Orange Qingden" worked at the American Embassy for 7 days more than a month ago.

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The Japanese pronunciation of the protagonist Tachibana Aoden is: たちばなあおと.

The Roman pronunciation is: tachibana aoto.
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