fought on the Emperor’s side against the Shogun. But he doesn’t like the way the new high-collar government’s been all sticky with the foreigners,” she said, using a word that actually meant sesame grinding as she ground sticky imaginary seeds in her palm. “So he’s gone back south and started training samurai in the hills, to fight the barbarians back to their boats. They blow up government offices to impress young men into joining them. They think if they bankrupt the rest of us by invading Korea, it will scare the foreigners away.”
