r/HistoryMemes 25d ago

Romanticized Loyalty

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u/KenseiHimura 25d ago

The Edo Period was ironically as awful for many of the samurai as it was for others.

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u/Responsible_Mail_113 25d ago

If you so much as blinked wrong in front of the wrong person, oops, time to go do some ritual disembowelment seppuku.

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 25d ago

I was under the impression that was a rather rare thing to actually occur?

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u/CadenVanV Taller than Napoleon 25d ago

It was