‘the new era has only begun.’
things i’d like to research among ...everything really !! but it’s been on my mind. things pertaining to what kenshin did for ten years and the time spent leading up to and his purpose for being in tokyo being two things:
observe the heart of the meiji government,
go where his journey leads him!
kenshin’s observations into the country, during his ten years prior to meeting kaoru as a wanderer starting at 19.
specifically noted the farmer’s rebellions at the ‘hard tax refund.’ in the ninth year of meiji, where unless resolved, ‘true restoration’ cannot be for those still yet ‘unsaved’ as kenshin tells sanosuke about the ‘incomplete era’.
being a farmer’s child before being sold into slavery, and offering his sword to the weak, its canonly implied he aided the farmers without causing a riot - though perhaps once could not prevent getting involved without intention once, as is also implied.
other things to explore while kenshin was wandering / what he was trying to make less of bloodshed:
the seinan war in the tenth year of meiji, kenshin likely an observer not a participant preferring not group-orienting but ‘protecting one by one’ .
kenshin accidentally once getting involved in one of the farmer’s rebellions though he did not associate with a side merely helped individually / handfuls of people.
kenshin observing in the 9th year also, the start of the Jinpuran no Ran* where numerous results of rebellions and dissatisfaction from the fuhei-shizoku / ‘
* shizoku: 士族 ‘ warrior families / former merged into a social class began to rebel against the meiji governments equalization of society .
‘fuhei shizoku = discontented former samurai’.
kenshin overall, going to the heart of the government, tokyo, and observing the meiji government himself.
kenshin basically observing wars / rebellions from a distance and likely protecting or administering aid to either side in terms of healing wounds / lacerations .
in society a rurouni to quote kihei, literally to most has no value or ‘stands for nothing’. which we know for the rurouni kenshin, is quite false.
kenshin overall, going to the heart of the government, tokyo, and observing the meiji government himself.
kenshin basically observing wars from a distance and likely protecting or administering aid to either side in terms of healing wounds / lacerations .
in society a rurouni to quote kihei, literally has no value or ‘stands for nothing’. which we know for the rurouni kenshin, is quite false.
how ultimately kenshin’s journey is a breeze of where it leads him next while observing the country he had a major hand in rebuilding.
to quote the profile book:
‘if the government is correct he’ll take their side, however if he feels the government is wrong, he will become their enemy.’
