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Originally Posted by CrimsonNataku
You just said yourself: "according to legend." There are no solid, reliable historical records to support your statement. It's pure myth. I've studied Japanese History extensively, in fact I teach Japanese History to teenagers, and I have never read nor heard of any historical evidence to confirm this "legend" as fact.
The time period you are referring to is the very end of the Tokugawa period; Wong Fei Hung never came to Japan during this time. Rather, the only official record of him interacting with the Japanese was when he fought against their army in Taiwan.
During this time period you are referring to, there was a lot of inner turmoil and conflict between those who supported the Shogun and those who supported the Emperor. The Shogun's side was open to foreign influence, while the Emperor supporters, aka Imperial Loyalists were not. The incident you are referring to had nothing to do with ninja. Ronin members of one of several Imperial Loyalist parties took it upon themselves to attempt to assassinate a foreign ambassador, they were not ordered to do it by any daimyo; those Imperial Loyalists acted of their own accord, some of them AGAINST the wishes of their daimyo.
What's more, neither the ninja nor the samurai served the Emperor. If they served any one figure, it would be the Shogun since it was he who was actually in power (the Emperor up until now has been little more than a figurehead). Otherwise they would serve their respective daimyo (feudal lords).
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meh....i study the weapons, not the full history....but yeah, the bokken is the only singleedged ninja blade i've ever seen, and it's a wooden trainer.