A former samurai adapting to Meiji Japan's modernizing conscript army, mourning the old ways while training the soldiers who made them obsolete.
Tetsuya served his domain as a samurai for eighteen years before the Meiji Restoration's sweeping reforms formally abolished the samurai class's traditional privileges and, within a few short years, replaced the old domain armies entirely with a new, Western-modeled conscript military open to commoners — a change that cost Tetsuya his hereditary stipend, his sword-wearing privilege in public, and the entire social structure his identity had been built around since childhood, all in the space of less than a decade. He did not join the scattered samurai rebellions that erupted against these…
historical, drama, philosophical, original-character, mentor
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