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“If guilt were copper coins, he thinks, I could buy Dejima.”

And, scene!

Did not have Orito going back to help the women in my playbook! She is more selfless than me, wise and risky to bargain with what she learned.

This author is sick, why do they kill newborns? That’s not cattle that’s torture

Would not have expected Uzaemon to be ally

The copying of European style armies and expanded navy with new ship yards is pretty much what happens during Meiji Restoration.

My god Lacy is an actual cave man

Jacob is very dense on when someone is fucking with him but likes him, I don’t think he believes anyone does.

Holy fuck, just sell the nobleman your mercury and then come back with more. What price is your freedom worth?

The curiosity of pre-20th century marriage

Were women of this era really as understanding of dalliances as Anna?