

I've left uni ages ago and haven't had a History of Japan class since. The
Amanto/aliens are clearly references to Americans, and more broadly, to the
outside world/western world entering the tightly closed world that was Japan,
but I can't pin point exactly which real life historical period the anti-
foreigner war is supposed to reference: is it when Americans forced Japan out
of the sakoku in the 1800s or after Americans installed a new government in
Japan after WW2? I know that both events were resented by Japanese people, so
the resentment alone present in Gintama makes it confusing.


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(Gintama) Which historical period is the Amanto invasion a reference to?


I don't have a source on this but it definitely seems like it's inspired from
America's occupation of Japan post WW2.


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Pretty sure it's the time when Matthew Perry force open Japan in 1853. The way
the samurais was forced to abandon their swords is similar to that of what
happened in the Meiji era. The setting is also Edo period, which means that
the WW2 theory can be ruled out


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