When a mysterious epidemic caused a rapid decline in the male population, women in the country were forced to assume the core power role of Edo society. The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yoshimune, was curious about why women should use male names when inheriting family lineage. She consulted a large Austrian file called "The Chronicles of the Apocalypse"
When a mysterious epidemic caused a rapid decline in the male population, women in the country were forced to assume the core power role of Edo society. The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yoshimune, was curious about why women should use male names when inheriting family lineage. She consulted a large Austrian file called "The Chronicles of the Apocalypse"