The Japanese government issued the Haitō Edict, The Sword Abolishment Edict (廃刀令) prohibiting people, with the exception of former lords (daimyōs), the military, and law enforcement officials, from carrying weapons in public, including swords.
It was an attack on the former samurai class, with their establishment itself having already been eliminated.
Heavily romanticized, the samurai were one of the traditional Japanese classes which were an impediment on the Meji government consolidating power and modernizing the country. Regular citizens bearing arms had been banned in 1870 as part of the effort and the Imperial Japanese Army, with conscription, established in 1873. The moves were resented, but successful in consolidating imperial power.
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Sunday, March 26, 1876. Big Horn Expedition returns.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1877, 1890s, 1899, Army, Big Horn Expedition, Great Sioux War, Personalities, Wyoming (Ft. Fetterman)
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